Digital Reading Strategies
A Faculty Learning Community Presentation
Dawn Hawley, Librarian/eLearning; Judi Wise, Faculty;
Traci Taylor, Librarian; and Stoo Sepp, Director of eLearning
Bellingham Technical College
Digital Reading Strategies
A Faculty Learning Community Presentation
Dawn Hawley, Librarian/eLearning; Judi Wise, Faculty;
Traci Taylor, Librarian; and Stoo Sepp, Director of eLearning
Bellingham Technical College
This session will focus on the development of digital leadership
skills for librarians in the area of collection management.
Within this context digital leadership refers to leadership as a
responsibility as opposed to a role. It will demonstrate a digital
leadership model that can be reused in different work contexts
and the use of online training to develop core competencies.
Creating a customer focussed vision for On Demand at Northumbria University L...Lee Blyth
Focusing on the results of a recent On Demand user survey aimed at understanding how our customers discover and access scholarly knowledge and what is important to them. This presentation looks at the value of an On Demand service in the context of the changing landscape of scholarly publishing and customer expectations.
How to Make Infographics with Students the Easy WayEasel.ly
Infographics are powerful visuals that communicate information, data, or knowledge. They’ve been around forever, but it is a rising content type used in teaching and across all industries to present information to a wide range of audiences. Students encounter infographics in their daily lives, and they will continue to do so in college and into their careers. Teaching infographics is a great way for students to understand the importance of communicating visually with an audience. You'll also be helping them to build their visual and data literacy skills! So, if you’re ready to dive into the world of infographics with your students, you should watch this webinar!
We’ll walk you through
-Introducing infographics to your students!
-Key steps to making an infographic - from research to publishing!
-Easel.ly’s design tool for making infographics the easy way!
-Our Educator Discount!
This session offers the results of a study that tests the assertion that the online dissemination of theses has a positive impact on the research profile of the institution. Based on a combination of primary and secondary research, with some fascinating statistical comparative information, the study outlines the types of metrics an institution may use to measure the impact of its corpus of digitised dissertations and examines how these metrics may be generated. It is the result of a year-long study undertaken with the London School of Economics which focuses on the outcomes achieved through its programme of theses digitisation, disseminated simultaneously through its institutional repository and through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database (PDTD). Results achieved by the LSE will be compared with metrics gathered globally by ProQuest via its PDTD. The session will be of interest to all librarians and academics involved in the use of digitised theses as a research resource, digitisation projects (retrospective or ongoing) and university rankings.
Join us for a comprehensive insight into COUNTER and the COUNTER Code of Practice including:
What is COUNTER?
Why COUNTER is important to library customers
Why COUNTER is important to publishers
How to become COUNTER compliant and the COUNTER Code of Practice
COUNTER reports for books, journals and databases
Attendees will understand what the COUNTER initiative is and how it helps to provide the librarian community with reliable, consistent and compatible online usage statistic reports that can be used to inform collection management decisions. Attendees will be familiar with the different COUNTER reports available for journals, databases and ebooks, and how to access them. They will learn about the COUNTER Code of Practice which advises vendors how to become COUNTER compliant and why this is important.
The British Library was one of the first national libraries to create and offer linked data in 2011 as part of its wider open data strategy. Since that point the organisation has gained considerable experience of the issues involved in the development and maintenance of a sustained linked data service.
This presentation describes
- Why libraries are interested in offering linked data?
- What are some of the basic concepts involved in linked data?
- How can linked data be created from library MARC data?
The application of linked data concepts and technologies promises great benefits for the retrieval and access of library and cultural heritage resources, but requires new ways of thinking by professionals and end-users. This presentation will use linked data examples from RDA: resource description and access, and will discuss:
- A basic introduction to data structures: triples, chains, and clusters
- What is a linked data record?
- Global, multilingual linked data
- Linking data from multiple sources
- The Semantic Web: a paradigm shift?
It is not new to say that the scholarly communication system is sick. One way to put it is that the publishers have built a paywall around the papers written by our faculty and make us librarians pay for it.
For years, Open Access via the green and gold route have been touted as a joint solution. To this end, as academic librarians, we focused on building institutional repositories and getting open access mandates. However, recently, many prominent members of the open access community have begun to express doubts about the viability of institutional repositories as a solution given the lack of success.
Some, like Stevan Harnad self-dubbed “Open Access Archivangelist” for Green Open access, claim to have given up, while others, like Eric Van de Velde, suggest that we rethink other ways to accomplish Green Open access beyond just institutional repositories. In this webinar, we will summarise all the arguments and attempt to give a librarian’s point of view about the future of IRs.
Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are an increasingly important tool and technology that enable new services for research. They are attached to outputs, grant funding, people and more. They provide a way to connect data, improve accuracy, and help the flow of information. Researchers can benefit from time savings, and more accurate attribution (think better citation data…) and institutions can gain efficiency savings and a better understanding of their research portfolio.
This webinar will provide an overview of the current PID landscape and will offer guidance on how PIDs for people (ORCID iDs) can be integrated in your systems, helping your researchers to take advantage of new and emerging services.
This session will focus on the development of digital leadership
skills for librarians in the area of collection management.
Within this context digital leadership refers to leadership as a
responsibility as opposed to a role. It will demonstrate a digital
leadership model that can be reused in different work contexts
and the use of online training to develop core competencies.
Creating a customer focussed vision for On Demand at Northumbria University L...Lee Blyth
Focusing on the results of a recent On Demand user survey aimed at understanding how our customers discover and access scholarly knowledge and what is important to them. This presentation looks at the value of an On Demand service in the context of the changing landscape of scholarly publishing and customer expectations.
How to Make Infographics with Students the Easy WayEasel.ly
Infographics are powerful visuals that communicate information, data, or knowledge. They’ve been around forever, but it is a rising content type used in teaching and across all industries to present information to a wide range of audiences. Students encounter infographics in their daily lives, and they will continue to do so in college and into their careers. Teaching infographics is a great way for students to understand the importance of communicating visually with an audience. You'll also be helping them to build their visual and data literacy skills! So, if you’re ready to dive into the world of infographics with your students, you should watch this webinar!
We’ll walk you through
-Introducing infographics to your students!
-Key steps to making an infographic - from research to publishing!
-Easel.ly’s design tool for making infographics the easy way!
-Our Educator Discount!
This session offers the results of a study that tests the assertion that the online dissemination of theses has a positive impact on the research profile of the institution. Based on a combination of primary and secondary research, with some fascinating statistical comparative information, the study outlines the types of metrics an institution may use to measure the impact of its corpus of digitised dissertations and examines how these metrics may be generated. It is the result of a year-long study undertaken with the London School of Economics which focuses on the outcomes achieved through its programme of theses digitisation, disseminated simultaneously through its institutional repository and through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database (PDTD). Results achieved by the LSE will be compared with metrics gathered globally by ProQuest via its PDTD. The session will be of interest to all librarians and academics involved in the use of digitised theses as a research resource, digitisation projects (retrospective or ongoing) and university rankings.
Join us for a comprehensive insight into COUNTER and the COUNTER Code of Practice including:
What is COUNTER?
Why COUNTER is important to library customers
Why COUNTER is important to publishers
How to become COUNTER compliant and the COUNTER Code of Practice
COUNTER reports for books, journals and databases
Attendees will understand what the COUNTER initiative is and how it helps to provide the librarian community with reliable, consistent and compatible online usage statistic reports that can be used to inform collection management decisions. Attendees will be familiar with the different COUNTER reports available for journals, databases and ebooks, and how to access them. They will learn about the COUNTER Code of Practice which advises vendors how to become COUNTER compliant and why this is important.
The British Library was one of the first national libraries to create and offer linked data in 2011 as part of its wider open data strategy. Since that point the organisation has gained considerable experience of the issues involved in the development and maintenance of a sustained linked data service.
This presentation describes
- Why libraries are interested in offering linked data?
- What are some of the basic concepts involved in linked data?
- How can linked data be created from library MARC data?
The application of linked data concepts and technologies promises great benefits for the retrieval and access of library and cultural heritage resources, but requires new ways of thinking by professionals and end-users. This presentation will use linked data examples from RDA: resource description and access, and will discuss:
- A basic introduction to data structures: triples, chains, and clusters
- What is a linked data record?
- Global, multilingual linked data
- Linking data from multiple sources
- The Semantic Web: a paradigm shift?
It is not new to say that the scholarly communication system is sick. One way to put it is that the publishers have built a paywall around the papers written by our faculty and make us librarians pay for it.
For years, Open Access via the green and gold route have been touted as a joint solution. To this end, as academic librarians, we focused on building institutional repositories and getting open access mandates. However, recently, many prominent members of the open access community have begun to express doubts about the viability of institutional repositories as a solution given the lack of success.
Some, like Stevan Harnad self-dubbed “Open Access Archivangelist” for Green Open access, claim to have given up, while others, like Eric Van de Velde, suggest that we rethink other ways to accomplish Green Open access beyond just institutional repositories. In this webinar, we will summarise all the arguments and attempt to give a librarian’s point of view about the future of IRs.
Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are an increasingly important tool and technology that enable new services for research. They are attached to outputs, grant funding, people and more. They provide a way to connect data, improve accuracy, and help the flow of information. Researchers can benefit from time savings, and more accurate attribution (think better citation data…) and institutions can gain efficiency savings and a better understanding of their research portfolio.
This webinar will provide an overview of the current PID landscape and will offer guidance on how PIDs for people (ORCID iDs) can be integrated in your systems, helping your researchers to take advantage of new and emerging services.
Digital Devices Mean New Strategies for Content DeliveryRob Reynolds
This is a presentation delivered at the Lausanne Laptop Institute on July 16, 2012. The presentation addresses the need for comprehensive learning content strategies as schools integrate more devices into the learning ecosystem.
Presentation delivered by Moira Bent and Louise Gordon at the "Shhhh? The Reality of New Technologies and their Place in Libraries" event held at Teesside University on the 8th of May 2012 by CILIP ARLG Northern
Why choose between presentations when you can come to one FEAST? Future & Emerging Access Services Trends (FEAST) is back for a fifth year, providing multiple speakers and topics in one 60 minute session. Hear practitioners and experts discuss what's new or just around the corner in circulation, shelving, reserves, interlibrary loan, offsite storage and more in short seven minute courses. Fresh and timely. Never frozen. There's always plenty to choose from at the FEAST!
2015 Speakers are:
Ryan Buller - University of Denver
Teresa Doherty - Virginia Commonwealth University
Whitney Vitale/Huifen Chang - Oklahoma State University
David McCaslin - California Institute of Technology
Kristine Ferry - University of California: Irvine
Amanda Kramer - Washington College
Elizabeth Salmon/Joe Ameen - University of California: Merced
Denise O'Shea - Montclair State University
Moderators:
Paul Sharpe - University of Missouri: St. Louis
Rameka Barnes - Texas A&M University
Sponsored by LLAMA SASS Emerging Trends Committee
Presented at the American Library Association Annual 2015 Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Visit http://www.techsoup.org for donated technology for nonprofits and libraries!
Are you starting to check out devices like e-readers, tablets, and laptops? Making devices available for public use may seem challenging and overwhelming. However, the right combination of technology, organization, and policies can help your library create a popular checkout program that your patrons will love.
View these webinar slides to learn what one library is doing to expand checkout to cover a wide range of devices. Stephen Tafoya (Garfield County Library District, CO) will share his experience with device checkout, including Kindles, iPads, and Google Chromebooks. He will share best practices, tips, and advice to help you get started (or to improve your existing device checkout program).
Delivering on-demand knowledge to your workforce is essential to aid their productivity.
In this presentation we explore how modern technology is altering how people think and what we as instructional designers can do to engage learners.
This is a copy of the presentation given by Dr Adam Chester at Training With Technology 2014.
This session will demystify (generative) AI by exploring its workings as an advanced statistical modelling tool (suitable for any level of technical knowledge). Not only will this session explain the technological underpinnings of AI, it will also address concerns and (long-term) requirements around ethical and practical usage of AI. This includes data preparation and cleaning, data ownership, and the value of data-generated - but not owned - by libraries. It will also discuss the potentials for (hypothetical) use cases of AI in collections environments and making collections data AI-ready; providing examples of AI capabilities and applications beyond chatbots.
CATH DISHMAN, CENYU SHEN,
KATHERINE STEPHAN
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
Christina Dinh Nguyen, University of Toronto Mississauga Library
In the world of digital literacies, liaison and instructional librarians are increasingly coming to terms with a new term: algorithmic literacy. No matter the liaison or instruction subjects – computer science, sociology, language and literature, chemistry, physics, economics, or other – students are grappling with assignments that demand a critical understanding, or even use, of algorithms. Over the course of this session, we’ll discuss the term ‘algorithmic literacies,’ explore how it fits into other digital literacies, and see why it as a curriculum might belong at your library. We’ll also look at some examples of practical pedagogical methods you can implement right away, depending on what types of AL lessons you want to teach, and who your patrons are. Lastly, we’ll discuss how librarians should view themselves as co-learners when working with AL skills. This session seeks to bring together participants from across the different libraries, with diverse missions/vision/mandates, to explore ways we can all benefit from teaching AL. If time permits, we may discuss how text and data librarians (functional specialists) can support the development of this curriculum.
David Pride, The Open University
In this paper, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question- answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first demonstrate that GPT3.5 and GPT4 cannot be relied upon to provide references or citations for generated text. We then introduce CORE-GPT which delivers evidence-based answers to questions, along with citations and links to the cited papers, greatly increasing the trustworthiness of the answers and reducing the risk of hallucinations.
Cath Dishman, Cenyu Shen, Katherine Stephan
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
This plenary panel will discuss the problems of “predatory” publishing and what, if anything, publishers, our community and researchers can do to try and help minimise their abundancy/impact.
eth Montague-Hellen, Francis Crick Institute, Katie Fraser, University of Nottingham
Open Access is a foundational topic in Scholarly Communications. However, when information professionals and publishers talk about its future, it is nearly always Gold open access we discuss. Green was seen as the big solution for providing access to those who couldn’t afford it. However, publishers have protested that Green destroys their business models. How true is this, and are we even all talking the same language when we talk about Green?
Chris Banks, Imperial College London, Caren Milloy, Jisc,
Transitional agreements were developed in response to funder policy and institutional demand to constrain costs and facilitate funder compliance. They have since become the dominant model by which UK research outputs are made open access. In January 2023, Jisc instigated a critical review of TAs and the OA landscape to provide an evidence base to inform a conversation on the desired future state of research dissemination. This session will discuss the key findings of the review and its impact on a sector-wide consultation and concrete actions in the UK and beyond.
Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver, Jason Price, SCELC Library Consortium
As transformative agreements emerge as a new standard, it is critical for libraries, consortia, publishers, and vendors to have consistent and comprehensive data – yet data around publication profiles, authorship, and readership has been shown to be highly variable in availability and accuracy. Building on prior research around frameworks for assessing the combined value of open publishing and comprehensive read access that these deals provide, we will address multi-dimensional perspectives to the challenges that the industry faces with the dissemination, collection, and analysis of data about authorship, readership, and value.
Hylke Koers, STM Solutions
Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) launched in 2020 with the objective of streamlining discovery and access of scholarly content in the many tools that researchers use today, such as Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and many others. It works equally well for open access content as it does for subscription-based content, providing researchers with recognizable buttons and indicators to get them to the most up-to-date version of content with minimal effort. Currently, around 30,000 OA articles are accessed every day via GetFTR links.
Gareth Cole, Loughborough University, Adrian Clark, Figshare
Researchers face more pressure to share their research data than ever before. Owing to a rise in funder policies and momentum towards more openness across the research landscape. Although policies for data sharing are in place, engagement work is undertaken by librarians in order to ensure repository uptake and compliance.
We will discuss a particular strategy implemented at Loughborough University that involved the application of conceptual messaging frameworks to engagement activities in order to promote and encourage use of our Figshare-powered repository. We will showcase the rationale behind the adoption of messaging frameworks for library outreach and some practical examples.
Mark Lester, Cardiff Metropolitan University
This talk will outline how a completely accidental occurrence led to brand new avenues for open research advocacy and reasons for being. This advocacy has occurred within student communities such as trainee teachers, student psychologists and (especially) those soon losing access to subscription-based library content. Alongside these new forms of advocacy, these ethical example of AI use cases has begun to form a cornerstone of directly connecting the work of the library to new technology.
Simon Bell, Bristol University Press
The UN SDG Publishers Compact, launched in 2020, was set up to inspire action among publishers to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, asking signatories to develop sustainable practices, act as champions and publish books and journals that will “inform, develop and inspire action in that direction”.
This Lightning Talk will discuss how our new Bristol University Press Digital has been developed as part of our mission to contribute a meaningful and impactful response to this call to action as well as the global social challenges we face.
Using thematic tagging to create uniquely curated themed eBook collections around the Global Social Challenges, Bristol University Press Digital responds directly to the need to provide the scholarly community access to a comprehensive range SDG focussed content while minimising time and resource at the institution end in collating content and maintaining collection relevance to rapidly evolving themes
Jenni Adams, University of Sheffield, Ric Campbell, University of Sheffield
Academic researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to make data and software FAIR in order to support the sharing and reuse of non-publication outputs. Currently there is still a lack of concise and practical guidance on how to achieve this in the context of specific data types and disciplines.
This presentation details recent and ongoing work at the University of Sheffield to bridge this gap. It will explore the development of a FAIR resource with specialist guidance for a range of data types and will examine the planned development of this project during the period 2023-25
TASHA MELLINS-COHEN
COUNTER & Mellins-Cohen Consulting, JOANNA BALL
DOAJ, YVONNE CAMPFENS
OA Switchboard,
ADAM DER, Max Planck Digital Library
Community-led organizations like DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), COUNTER (the standard for usage metrics) and OA Switchboard (information exchange for OA publications) are committed to providing reliable, not-for-profit services and standards essential for a well-functioning global research ecosystem. These organizations operate behind the scenes, with low budgets and limited staffing – no salespeople, marketing teams, travel budgets, or in-house technology support. They collaborate with one another and with bigger infrastructure bodies like Crossref and ORCID, creating the foundations on which much scholarly infrastructure relies.
These organizations deliver value through open infrastructure, data and standards, and naturally services and tools have been built by commercial and not-for-profit groups that capitalize on their open, interoperable data and services – many of which you are likely to recognize and may use on a regular basis.
Hear from the Directors of COUNTER, DOAJ and OA Switchboard, as well as a library leader, on the role of these organizations, the challenges they face and why support from the community is essential to their sustainability.
CAMILLE LEMIEUX
Springer Nature
What is the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scholarly publishing community? It's time to take a thorough look at the 2023 global Workplace Equity (WE) Survey results. The C4DISC coalition conducted the WE Survey to capture perceptions, experiences, and demographics of colleagues working at publishers, associations, libraries, and many more types of organizations in the global community. Four key themes emerged from the 2023 results, which will be compared to the findings from the first WE Survey conducted in 2018. Recommendations for actions organisations can consider within their contexts will be proposed and discussed.
Rob Johnson, Research Consulting
Angela Cochran, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Gaynor Redvers-Mutton, Biochemical Society
Since 2015, the number of self-published learned societies in the UK has decreased by over a third, with the remaining societies experiencing real-term revenue declines. All around the world, society publishers are struggling with increased competition from commercial publishers and the rise of open access business models that reward quantity over quality. We will delve into the distinctive position of societies in research, examine the challenges confronting UK and US learned society publishers, and explore actionable steps for libraries and policymakers to support the continued relevance of learned society publishers in the evolving scholarly landscape.
Simon Bell, Clare Hooper, Katharine Horton, Ian Morgan
Over the last few years we have witnessed a seismic shift in the scholarly ecosystem. Three years since outset of the COVID pandemic and the establishment UN Publishers Compact, this is discussion-led presentation will look at how four UK Universities Presses have adopted a consultative and collaborative approach on projects to support their institutional missions, engage with the wider scholarly community while building on a commitment to make a meaningful difference to society.
This panel discussion will combine the perspectives of four UK based university presses, all with distinct identities and varied publishing programs drawn from humanities, arts and social sciences, yet with a shared recognition and value of the importance to collaborate and co-operate on a shared vision to support accessibility and inclusivity within the wider scholarly community and maintain a rich bibliodiversity.
While research support teams are generally small and specialist in nature, an increased demand of its service has been observed across the sector. This is particularly true for teaching-intensive institutions. As a pilot to expand research support across ARU library, the library graduate trainee was seconded to the research services team for a month. This dialogue between the former trainee and manager will discuss what the experience and outcomes of the secondment were from different perspectives. The conversation will also explore the exposure Library and Information Studies students have to research services throughout their degree.
TIM FELLOWS & EMILY WILD, Jisc
Octopus.ac is a UKRI funded research publishing model, designed to promote best practice. Intended to sit alongside journals, Octopus provides a space for researcher collaboration, recording work in detail, and receiving feedback from others, allowing journals to focus on narrative.
The platform removes existing barriers to publishing. It’s an entirely free, open space for researchers, without editorial and pre-publication peer review processes. The only requirement for authors is a valid ORCiD ID. Without barriers, Octopus must provide feedback mechanisms to ensure the community can self-moderate. During this session, we’ll explore Octopus’ aims to foster a collaborative environment and incentivise quality.
David Parker, Publisher and Founder, Lived Places Publishing
Dr. Kadian Pow, Lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies & LPP Author, Birmingham City University
Natasha Edmonds, Director, Publisher and Industry Strategy, Clarivate
Library patrons want to search for and locate authors by particular identity markers, such as gender identification, country of origin, sexual orientation, nature of disability, and the many intersectional points that allow an author to express a point-of-view. Artificial Intelligence, skilled web researchers, and data scientists in general struggle to achieve accuracy on single identity markers, such as gender. And what right does anybody have to affix identity metadata to an author other than the author theirselves? And what of the risks in disseminating author identity metadata in electronic distribution platforms and in library catalog systems? Can a "fully informed" author even imagine all the possible misuses of their identity metadata?
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4. MBChB - Medicine
• In 18 months I had covered the
same amount of content!
• Information overload!
• I needed to be able to access
• Lots of Info
• Quickly
• Efficiently
Our core texts had all
the answers
No!
But we will try
anyway!
5. So did I find a solution?
Yes
Digital Consumption
I am a paperless student
7. MBChB - Medicine
• Search across all my content & resources
• Seamlessly switch between note
taking, resource apps & textbooks
• ↑ Efficacy
• ↓ Time taken
• ↓ Stress, ↑ Satisfaction
• On demand society
8. Tablet Computing
• Not a new idea
• Powerful personalised education tool
• 18 months – If not sooner!
• Expectations will rise!
We remember
20% of what we read
30% of what we hear
40% of what we see
50% of what we say
60% of what we do
Why use one as a student?
• Adoption of a device that allows this = no brainer!
• Personalised education experience Flexible
• Desire is present
Ultimately we remember 90% of what we
read, see, hear, say and do
• Question - “So why haven’t you bought one?”
• Answer – “I’ve always wanted to buy one, but I’ve
never been sure how I could actually use it.”
9. Consulting Information
• Notes & Resources at my finger tips
• Notability (Note taking app)
– Take a history from the patient
• Answer questions with confidence
• Refresh memory
• Perform with confidence
• Instant feedback
10. Consulting Information
• British National Formulary (BNF)
– Resource App Instant learning &
subsequent reinforcement
Pocket Body (Anatomy App)
• Recap anatomy
• Forefront of mind
• Anchor points
• Improved learning
• ↑ retention
14. • Cluttered
• Analogue & basic
• Difficulty w/ multiple sources
• Can get lost
• Simple, efficient
• Interactive textbook
• Audio/visual content
• Can’t get lost
15.
16. Notability
• Best selling note taker of 2012
– Handwritten, Typed, Recorded Notes
– PDF annotation, Web clipping, Pictures
• Exceptional hand writing quality & speed
– Zoom window
• Auto sync to the cloud
– You can’t lose your notes!
• Closest experience to a pen & paper
– Marginally slower
17. GoodReader
• PDF Viewer & Library
• Fast & Smooth PDF viewing
– Tabs allow for multiple PDFs
– Opens MS office files, pictures, audio & video
• Mark up PDFs
– Handwritten & typed notes, pop-up comments
– Highlighted text, shapes, underlines & strikeout
• Organises & handles large PDF files
• Syncs with the cloud
18. Inkling
• Interactive, Smart, Multi-touch – books
• The future of the textbook
– Intuitive navigation
– Interactive, movies, animations, music, podcasts, s
lideshows, interactive images, 3D models
– Search through the entire book
– Highlight text, make notes & share them
• Purchase per chapter
– Free content updates
19.
20.
21. Maximising digital potential
• Interactive textbooks as a base model
• Smart textbooks would be irresistible!
• Why? Simple You will get a better grade
• What do I want my textbook to do?
– Whilst I study it, it studies me
– Inform me of my progress
– Adapt the content of the book to me
– Be a personal study buddy
– A true personal learning environment
– Compare me to my peers
23. Dropbox
• The fulcrum of a digital student
• Upload, Sync & Download all your content
– Offline viewing
– Never lose your content
• Organises your files
• Sharing
24. Sharing Is Caring
• Dropbox shared folders
– Sharing resources
– Automatic downloads
– Specific shared links
27. Barriers to being a digital student
1. Awareness
– Solutions
• Librarians – Digital literacy, Student advisors
• Publishers – Free (offline) ebooks with paper copies
2. Costs
– Solutions
• Upfront costs wont change – Loaning from libraries?
• Publishers Institutional and Private consumption
28. Challenges
• Key dichotomy
– Private consumption
– Institutional consumption
• I get free access to all the popular texts in
paper form from my library
• So why not digital?
• Fragmentation, Reduced Variety & Variable
Quality
29. My ideal workflow
• Interactive textbooks as a standard
– Export content from (in PDF format) to my notes
• Interactive textbooks
– One universal store to buy them (privately)
– One universal platform to view them on
– Easy to loan from my library (free)
• Apply learning analytics
• Institutional subscriptions to Apps
31. Conclusion
• Digital consumption is the future
– Smartbooks > Interactive Textbooks > PDFs > ePubs > Paper textbooks
– Viewable offline & in third party apps
• Paperless students will become more common
• Publishers need to adapt
– Free tools like iBooks Author
– Universities are capable of producing & publishing better quality books
than what the current market provides (ePub) & for free!
– When they realise this Power shift? Are you worried yet?
• Libraries & Institutions need to re-organise
– Funds to incorporate Apps & more digital content
– Improve digital literacy, advise and thus ↑ awareness
32. Thank you for your time
Please feel free to contact me
Joshua James Harding
J.J.Harding@warwick.ac.uk
@PaperlessMedic
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/joshua-
harding/6a/56a/467/