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Exploring eTextbooks with Talis

Keji Adedeji Product Manager

Why core eTextbooks?

Why core eTextbooks?

• Emerging one-to-one models of core text provision for students • Small number of institutions involved at scale • More institutions and faculties in pilots

Why core eTextbooks?

• Key differentiator and marketing for student acquisition • No extra costs for student • Improved student experience

• guaranteed access to core texts • social inclusion by removing challenge for low income students • potential to improve student retention

• Desire to improve teaching efficiency • guaranteed access to core text for all students

Challenges

Academic selection process

• Identifying core texts & quantities across institution • highly manual process

• Managing the academic selection process • seeking responses • dialog about preferences

• For academics • lack of visibility across modules • discovering and selecting alternatives • time

Lack of inventory & price visibility

• Digital availability and cost is unknown • Increases length of selection process as preferences may have to

change depending on availability and/or cost

Long and looping negotiation cycle

• Negotiations with numerous publishers • Multiple exchanges of spreadsheets • Lack of transparency

Provisioning content

• Effort to provision content to relevant point in VLE for students • Ease of seamless access to content for students? • Student awareness and use of content?

Understanding usage & demonstrating success

• Analysing and understanding usage data • Highly manual, time intensive workflow

• especially when done at scale • but is also a barrier to pilot

How we can help

Core textbooks

• Technology collaboration • Vitalsource

• Development partners • University of Manchester

• University of Plymouth

• Northumbria University

How we can help

• Support for academic selection process • Workflow to simplify decision making & negotiation process

• Easily and quickly identify core textbooks at institution • Reduce back and forth dialog with academics • Reduce negotiation cycle time

How we might help?

• Seamless provisioning & student access • Integrated into existing academic and library workflows • seamless delivery and promotion to courses through reading list and VLE

• Detailed usage analytics to support • academics in the teaching process • acquisitions decision making

Identify modules

Initiate academic preferences selection

Academic preference selection

Discover and select alternatives

Review preferences

Review preferences

Select candidates

Select candidates

Negotiate candidate titles

Negotiate candidate titles

Provision titles

“Plymouth University is very pleased to work with Talis in developing the Digital Content module with

additional functionality to help support efficient, informed and user-focused workflows for core text

selection and acquisition” – Jason Harper, Content Strategy Manager

Questions?

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