by Ellis Booker, Information Week
Now in its third full semester, some 10,000 IU students are part of its e-text initiative, which has doubled to 250 course sections in just the past year. From a cost standpoint, IU believes it has saved $200,000 in total over next-best options. At IU, e-texts are managed by Courseload, an online learning and collaboration platform. Among other things, Courseload lets teachers add any sort of media or annotate existing textbooks, and push this onto students’ devices. Similarly, students can highlight or add notes to their digital files, as well as collaborate with others — for example, members of a study group. Synchronization is handled over the network. Along with ongoing, searchable access to all of their e-texts while they are enrolled at IU, students using e-text can print for no additional cost or get full printed versions for a small fee.
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