Symtext's BookNet Canada 2010 presention

“One Book From Many”
Booknet Canada Tech Forum
March 25th, 2010
www.symtext.com // ian@symtext.com // @IRBarker

About this presentation
Background
How it works
Questions

One Book From Many
...whose book are we talking about?

Defining Characteristics of Higher Ed
Educator as “specifier”
Credentials and the “Availability of Information”
Compromise

Cost of Compromise- problem for educators
The “Unread Chapter Tax”
- problem for students
Used texts, Copying, Open Content
- problem for publishers

New World of (Digital) Higher Education
Completely new set of behaviours and expectations.

One Book From Many
...whose book are we talking about?
Educator’s book.
Or is it?
Is it even a “book” at all?

About Us
Symtext makes it easy for educators to provide their learners with exactly the right mix of digital instructional materials.

Focus on the Educator... Exactly the right mix
Multi-source
Multi-format
Fee and free
One’s own materials
Source, edit, publish, and consume digitally
Optional Print On Demand
Switzerland

Publishers
Management of prices and permissions
For each market
Reporting
Decision making

Students
Value: best credentials for the least money!
"The quality of comments shows that students are generally thinking seriously about the readings and/or issues arising from them. As a result, students are much better prepared for discussions and exercises, and class participation is richer and more egalitarian."Amanda Goldrick-Jones, UBC

About the Product
Liquid Textbooks let educators build the ideal course. By assembling exactly the right mix of learning materials, professors craft a living curriculum that reflects their unique style while covering the desired material.
Once assembled, the Liquid Textbook becomes a platform for interaction and engagement, within which teachers, students, and subject matter experts explore and learn..

Liquid Textbooks have been used at...

Sources of Content
50+ publishers
Higher Education, commercial
Higher Education, academic
Media – print and television
Platform licensees
Some of our content providers

Takeaways
Meet the needs of educators, students and publishers
Focus on the educator
Switzerland – content, distribution, fee/free
New technology mandates new models
Whose book are we talking about?

How to get in touch
ian@symtext.com
@IRBarker
www.symtext.com

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