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E-texts: Pilots, Lessons Learned, and Policy Implications

Pilots, Lessons Learned, and Policy

Implications

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E-Text Pilot Goals

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Stakeholders

Institution

Faculty

Students

BookstoresIT/Libraries

eReaders

Publishers

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Middlebury College

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Middlebury College

Founded in 1800

International presence

MainCampus (Vt.)

MontereyInstitute of International Studies

(Calif.)

SummerLanguageSchools

C.V. StarrMiddlebury

Schools

Abroad

Bread Loaf School of English

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Middlebury College

eTextbook pilot for Fall 2012

coordinated through Library & Information

Services (LIS) 4 LIS staff members for support

14 courses, 21 sections

503 students, 17 faculty, 14 texts

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Stakeholders - Middlebury experience

MiddleburyCollege

AcademicAffairs

Faculty

StudentsBookstore

(Middleburyowned)

Courseload

McGraw-Hill

LIS

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Middlebury College

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 Affordability

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Textbook Costs and Their Impact

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 Avg. Textbook Costs By Type Plus

Institutionally Licensed E-Text

$17

$36

$40

$64

$68

$84

$108

$132

$176

$0 $50 $100 $150 $200

New

Used

E-Reader

E-Book

Rental

Open Color

IL E-Book

Open B&W

Open D&P

Institutionally Licensed E-Textbook

Source: Nicole Allen, A Cover-to-Cover Solution, The Student PIRGs,

Sept. 2010, p.19; Brad Wheeler, “E-Texts: A Perishable Opportunity forHigher Education,” EDUCAUSE Live!, Jan. 24, 2012 (webinar).

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 Added Functionality

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 Additional Functionality

Highlighting passages

Recording comments

Sharing notes with other students Reading materials while offline

Using different devices (e.g., computers,

tablets, etc.)

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 Additional Functionality - Middlebury experience

• pilots (especially 1 semester) do not

incentivize faculty to revise courses to takeadvantage of added functionality

• added functionality = added work for faculty to

use; and if they don’t push it, students won’t

either 

• high barrier to create worthwhile functionality

that faculty will invest time in

• everyone is focused on costs; if publishers are

eyeing “added functionality” primarily as a way

to justify higher prices, could (temporarily, at

least) derail the movement towards eTexts.

Just sayin’…. 

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Information Policy

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• Ownership

• Licensing

• Digital Rights

Management (DRM)

• Preservation

Information Policy Issues

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 Accessibility

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The E-Text Pilots and NFB

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Thinking About It?

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“Dear Middlebury”: Advice for the

eTextbook lovelorn… 

scale pilot appropriately – make it worthwhile, but not too muchto handle

how will you pay?  – easiest for us to just use LIS budget 

plan for assessment from the beginning – if possible, get

assessment commitments from faculty up front, perhaps as a

condition of participating involve the bookstore (regardless of what anyone says) – think

about bookstore contracts with outside vendors

involve Institutional Research/Assessment - especially if you

need their permission to gather data, send out surveys, etc.

talk to faculty as early as possible. Find faculty who aren’tafraid of technology.

keep talking. Check in. Tell faculty about the added features,

even if they aren’t interested (if only to confirm this!) 

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For More Information

EDUCAUSE and Internet2 eText Pilot Series educause.edu/etexts 

Internet2 NET+ Services internet2.edu/netplus 

Dana Voss, dvoss@internet2.edu 

Presenters: Joan Cheverie, EDUCAUSE

  jcheverie@educause.edu  Terry Simpkins, Middlebury College

tsimpkin@middlebury.edu