Digital Textbook Resources

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

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Colleagues/



If you’ve not experienced the ‘Resources'  in my recent PPT _Digital Textbooks : A Perfect Storm for Higher Learning_  I believe that you will find them educational / informative / inspirational >

1 > _DT > Digital Textbooks_

DT Is Devoted To Documenting Significant Initiatives That Relate To Any And All Aspects Of Digital Textbooks, Most Notably Their Use In Higher Education

 http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/

2> HighEd Tech Video >   From Dewey to Digital: Are e-books, Tablets and Digital Content Coming of Age?



- James P. Danky, Future of Print Project, Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sean Devine, CEO, Coursesmart
- Matt MacInnis, Founder & CEO, Inkling
- Vineet Madan, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
- Osman Rashid, Co-Founder & CEO, Kno



3> Next is Now > The Switch to Digital Learning: How We Will Teach and How They Will Learn

4> The Future of Learning Content:  Digital Textbooks, Open Content, Apple and Beyond



5> eTexts Constituent Group



Also > The University of Michigan Library video

All are available via _Digital Textbooks: A Perfect Storm For Higher Learning_

http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/2012/02/digital-textbooks-perfect-storm-for.html

Regards,

/Gerry



Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

and

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University

152 Parks Library

Ames IA 50011



http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/

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