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Ebooks are coming of age in education, as this exciting collection commissioned by Jisc demonstrates. Case studies, reflecting ebook success stories across the higher and further education sectors, include: - An innovative app to encourage ebook take-up in a Welsh college. 
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It's so good such infographics like the one presented below are created. They don't only list challenges both librarians and library patrons face in times
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Budget cuts, a skeptical public, uncertain enrollments, new competitors—higher education faces so many challenges these days, and isn’t known for responding nimbly. But the changing landscape could also offer new opportunities for colleges—to experiment with how students learn, find new ways to reach more-diverse students, and maybe even save money.
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In this age of the ubiquitous mobile device, information and digital literacy skills remain as essential as they have always been for critical thinking. However, in mobile spaces, it is often difficult for librarians and other information professionals to create pathways for the acquisition of these skills. It can be especially challenging in this environment to construct training spaces for outreach populations. Even so, the mobile environment can be as exciting as it is taxing. This presentation explores some of those challenges and suggests opportunities for outreach coaching.
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Ebooks seem like a great advancement for education. Why spend hundreds of dollars and muscle power on textbooks if the material can be loaded on a portable device? Innovative educational apps and "creative negotiations with ebook publishers" are already underway and making it easier for schools, teachers and students to incorporate eBooks into lesson plans, especially when it comes to higher education.
Connecting with "actual" libraries sounds like a smart idea to halt the decline of libraries which is a major concern when discussing eBooks.
This article introduces a set of case studies on eBooks in education, which will include experiments and reports from teachers, lecturers and students. The "publication will be available for open access on a CC-BY licence."
It will be interesting to see how the eBook will come off and how those results will impact its future in digital education.
I expect that eBooks will soon be the preferred method of text sharing in school settings. It simplifies education (and life for that matter). Therefore, it is a "win" in my books!