Nmc11 ebooks
-
Upload
bill-zobrist -
Category
Education
-
view
411 -
download
4
description
Transcript of Nmc11 ebooks
twitter: bzobrist
New Media Consortium
Summer Conference June 2011
Bill Zobrist
Emerging & Online Product Strategy
eBooks in Higher Education
What’s On The Horizon
twitter: bzobrist
eBooks! Shapes and sizes!
VitalSource
twitter: bzobrist
The eReader
twitter: bzobrist
Amazon ebook sales surpass printed books
• Amazon sells more ebooks than print
• Amazon makes up 2/3 of all ebook sales
• Kindle at $114!
twitter: bzobrist
Kindle price drop
twitter: bzobrist
Amazon isn’t looking to “create an experience” — they want the author to create the experience.
Can He Be Believed?
twitter: bzobrist
I think we know why he built that Android App store.
twitter: bzobrist
NookColor
twitter: bzobrist
iBooks
• Download and read books
• Free samples • Highlight text, add notes• PDF docs • Few textbooks
twitter: bzobrist
Making the backpack obsolete?
• Is Apple doing to the textbook what it did to music? Or was it iTunes?
• It’s not the device, it’s the person holding it that’s changed!
• We simply don’t use books like we used to
twitter: bzobrist
The ebook is dead
What was the ebook? PDF?
twitter: bzobrist
Inkling
twitter: bzobrist
Kno
• Social Learning
• CourseManager
twitter: bzobrist
CourseSmart
twitter: bzobrist
CourseSmart
• More devices…the ability to run CourseSmart on a wide variety of devices and via the cloud
• More integration…partnerships with more platforms that enable contextual integration of CourseSmart eTextbooks on major LMS platforms.
• Better and more interactive reading experience…more interactivity in the eReader to bring out the fullness of pedagogy allowed by different types of media experiences.
• More products available on CourseSmart for student purchase…MyLabs, etc.
twitter: bzobrist
CafeScribe
twitter: bzobrist
CafeScribe
• rebuilt reader with a flexible, scalable architecture
• personalized learning tools
• extending the LMS through access to digital content
• adding data on learning analytics through roles and permissions in the reader
• use emerging technologies to fast forward mobile options
• respect the different uses smartphones and tablets can play in learning
twitter: bzobrist
What I’m hearing
• Rich interactions• Tools for personalization• Social• Device independence• Connected to other educational tech
twitter: bzobrist
The Future of Content
twitter: bzobrist
Why HTML5
• Rich interactivity desired (like Flash)
• Online / Offline web
• The death of plug-ins
• Cross platform
• Integrations
• Social/Sharing
Is this an ebook?
twitter: bzobrist
Bill Zobrist
Twitter: bzobrist
Skype: billzobrist
Location: usually near NYC
Questions or Comments?