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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.
- A partnership between a library and research centre to create open access monographs and midigraphs.
- Several examples of creative negotiations with ebook publishers.
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!