The document discusses ebooks and their potential as a future learning platform in higher education. It outlines the session agenda, including developments in ebooks, requirements for educational ebooks, and making ebooks interoperable. Requirements for e-textbooks are discussed, such as online testing, media integration, and creating customizable textbooks. Issues around adoption of ebooks in academia are also presented.

1. Wilbert Kraan
eBooks:TheLearningPlatformoftheFuture?

2. Overview of the session
• The development of ebooks
• Gathering requirements on educational ebooks
• Prioritising requirements on ebooks
• EDUPUB and IMS – Colin Smythe
• Break
• Making interactive ebooks interoperable and robust, Wilbert Kraan
• Authoring, publishing and distributing ebooks in academia, Mick
Chesterman
• Can an ebook be the learning platform of the future, and should we
want it to?

3. eBook adoption
Source:
Booktrust Reading Habits Survey 2013

4. eBooks in F/HE
• Lower adoption in academe?
– Nielsen, March 2014:
• 1 in 4 of all books sold to consumers are ebooks
• 40% of adult fiction is an ebook
• Graphics support
• Interactivity support
• Interoperability
• Rights management
• Role of libraries
• Self publishing

5. Recent e-(text)book developments
• Shift from e-readers to tablets (but 60% of ebooks are
still bought for dedicated readers)
• Editability
• Analytics
• VLE integration
• Integrated comprehension tests

6. Some resources
• Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Educat
Jisc TechWatch report
• The Challenge of ebooks in Academic Institutions Jisc
project

7. Requirements on e-textbooks
• What does an e-texbook need to
do over and above an ebook?
– Characteristics
• Online testing
• Offline testing
• 'unlimited' questions
• Reporting of results
• Discussion (class / world)
• Media
• Citations / quotes
• Gesture / interaction
• Highlighting text, asking
for clarification
– Creation
• Making your own
• Creating a textbook as a learning
experience / growing book
– Consumption
• Getting your own book published
• Convenient (distribution, transport)
• (Accessible/Individualisation)
– Curation
• Cheaper
• Longevity / Interoperability
• Integral / standalone
• Backward compatibility with EPUB2

8. Issues and obstacles to wider adoption

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