This session looked at the opportunities for using ebooks in education. We provided an overview of the current ebook landscape, with a focus on looking at the benefits, implications of use and how to get started. The recording and show notes are available at http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/surgery/session/getting-started-with-ebooks Read our related article http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/introduction-to-e-books

1. Getting started with ebooks
#Hosted by Zak Mensah
Originally broadcast on 22nd Feb 2012
Session recording and resources below
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/surgery/session/getting-started-with-ebooks

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5. Overview
What are ebooks?
e-books & e-learning:Trying to bring them together
e-books and e-resource discovery and promotion
Publishing ebooks
Q&A (10 mins)

6. What are ebook and ebook readers?

7. jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/crossmedia/advice/introduction-to-e-books

8. Photograph: flickr.com/photos/jaredearle/5662543638/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kodomut/5145996668/

9. 1 Why consider e-books?

10. Uses for e-books
• Academic text books
• Archiving a collection of material
• Collecting blog posts
• Self-publishing
• Marketing (e.g. prospectus)
• Research e.g. e-journals

11. Opportunities
• Access (delivery, time, accessibility)
• Support increased mobility
• Analytics of use
• Support a range of teaching activity
• Usability e.g. resize text
• Include multimedia (images, video and audio)
• interactivity (e.g. book links to wider resources)
• Annotation

12. Constraints
Perception
Support and formats
Publishers (Lack of key texts? DRM issues and economic
models)

13. Why aren’t students using E-Books?

14. Why aren’t students using E-Books? because they're too
expensive, maybe? Because you can't share them?
Because they don't exist for many textbooks

15. Audrey Watters writes,
"it does highlight the ways in which students’ needs
aren’t being met yet by digital content providers. That
means there’s still a huge opportunity here to reshape
what the textbooks of the future look like.

16. Openly licensed content, for example, could address
students’ concerns about sharing. Better social tools
Could help meet their needs for social reading and
learning.
Stephen Downes
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=56588

17. Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kodomut/5145996668/

18. e-books & e-learning
:Trying to bring them together
Andy Ramsden
The Elevate Team
http://a.ucs.ac.uk/elevate
elevate@ucs.ac.uk

19. A little context …
 look through e-learning lens
 building on work of others and over
time
 work through some tasks to explore
the potential requirements for an e-
book >>> revisiting my Holy Grail
 Developing a number of distance
learning courses.
 Increasing uptake of media tablets

20. What looking for from the technology (Holy Grail)
Task
 read recommended articles (instructor
controlled)
 make notes (student controlled)
 share my notes with other students
(student controlled)
 read other peoples notes in context of
the article and mine (student controlled)
 draw on my notes as part of my e-
portfolio

21. Workflow: iteration 1 …
ramsdenandy@Kindle.com
ramsdenandy_x@Kindle.com
Collect Emails
sharing does not scale … two devices gets annoying

22. Emerging approach (software tools)
Kindle iPad Andriod
But …. functionality does not seem consistent across devices … perhaps
not yet ready for my Holy Grail … ebooks are personal and not
collaborative

23. Thanks
Andy Ramsden
The Elevate Team
http://a.ucs.ac.uk/elevate
elevate@ucs.ac.uk

24. Anna Vernon

25. Sue Burnett
eBooks: aspects of
editing and publishing

26. First some things to consider
as a publisher...
How?
Who?
eBook
When?
Why?
What? Where?

27. And now some things to consider
for editing and production...
Document management
Some tips!
eBook
What format?
Metadata
Copyright Prelims

28. Document management
eBook

29. What format?
eBook

30. eBook
Prelims

31. Copyright
eBook

32. eBook Metadata

33. eBook
Some editing tips!

34. 4 Where next for e-books?

35. The Digital Monograph Technical Landscape study
(a.k.a. jiscPUB) was a six month thinktank set up by the
JISC in the first half of 2011 to explore the potential value
that the use of the ePUB specification could bring to the
Higher and Further Education sector if further adopted in
UK Universities.
http://jiscpub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/final-report/

36. Rich full-text semantic search tools for scholarly ebook
collections.
Tools for generating or traversing highly-specific stable
citations.
Plugins or add-ons to provide simple, ebook output for
popular word processing tools.

37. Improved workflows for authoring attractive, accessible,
standards-based mathematical notation in ebooks.
Development of an ereading system with an emphasis on
scholarly annotation and research-gathering.
Aggregate ebook services for authors and university
presses.
Maximize use of orphan works

38. How to reference
Author, Year, Title of book. [type of medium] Place of publication:
Publisher. Followed by Available through: include e-book
source/database, web address or URL [Accessed date].
Fishman, R., 2005. The rise and fall of suburbia. [e-book]
Chester: Castle Press. Available through:University of Bristol
Library website <http://libweb.bristol.ac.uk> [Accessed 5 June
2011].
Carlsen, J. and Charters, S., eds. 2007. Global wine tourism. [e
book] Wallingford: CABI Pub. Available through:University of
Bristol Library website <www.libweb.bristol.ac.uk> [Accessed 9
January 2012].