Andrea Angiolini, Il Mulino, about Pandoracampus @ Frankfurt Book Fair 2014, TISP workshop

Pandoracampus a mul&-‐publishers digital pla2orm for higher educa&on Tisp -‐ Frankfurt Bookfair 2014

•  It is a mul&-‐publisher digital pla2orm for higher educa&on •  100% eTextbooks, as well as ac=ve content, addi=onal features for studying and teaching, and resources for tes&ng your learning progress •  It aims at helping study by means of a digital environment, which gives more op&ons •  It is both a web plaEorm (please go to www.pandoracampus.it), and an app for iOs tablet, which can be used off line as well

What is Pandoracampus?


WEBAPP


APP on iPad

•  It prompts the study of texbooks •  Printed books are engineered -‐ fully-‐fledged digital edi=ons (no pdf and no ac&ve Drm) •  It adds context around content: digital store + elearning evironment = editorial services •  It is based on standards and so open to integra&on, and complies with up-‐to-‐date technology

Reasons why it’s new

•  Fully based on standards: – Docbook and html5 for text; – Css & javascript for interac&vity – Doi, Onix and Marc21 for metadata; – Ims L& & Q& for resources and quizzes

•  Interoperability: It can be integrated with elearning-‐pla2orms, opac and online stores

•  Portability: via browser, all the sysop – app for Android in 2015

Build on standards

Innova=ve on access: Flexibility Ways of access: •  1 month access (automa&c renewal); •  6 month access (renewal on demand); •  bundle with paper; •  access for ins&tu&ons (to be nego&ated); •  1 month free access (renewable) Accessed contents: •  either books or chapters •  course pack

•  The reader: concentrate on text •  The ac=ve content: interact and understand beZer •  The resources: go in deep and verify •  The services: individual ac&ons, community, personaliza&on, integra&on

Pandoracampus’s building blocks

COURSESMART VS

PANDORACAMPUS

CourseSmart vs Pandoracampus

Coursesmart (like print)


Pandorcampus level 1: like html


Pandorcampus leve 2: interac&vity

•  Par&ally founded by a regional program •  Parthership with university of Bologna •  Mostly developed by our teams and operated by our digital copyeditors

•  First, study of ini&a&ves/projects in a worldwide context (pondering on local constraints) >> R&D

How we have worked / 1

•  One year spent on experimen&ng (produc&on as well)

•  Focus groups with authors, students, professors, universi&es, domain experts

•  Feedback from both authors, and publishers •  Tests in actual courses •  Pilot start on 2013-‐14 AY, on the market 2014-‐15 AY

How we have worked / 2

The landscape

PRINTED

SERVICES ON PRINTED •  Personaliza&on (Pod etc)

ETEXT (simple) •  Digi&za&on as alterna&ve (for channel, price, etc)

ETEXT (advanced) •  Digi&za&on as interac&on

•  Portability, interoperability

•  Standard •  Disability

SERVICES and RESOURCES with ETEXT •  Exercize, assignment, assesment

•  Collabora&on, labs •  Text as commodity

RESORCES FOR COURSES •  No book, repositories of learning obj or courses

•  Self-‐produc&on, OpenContent

MOOCS •  No book, video courses

PLATFORMS WITH NO CONTENT •  For universi&es ad publishers

•  No EU players, no publishers among actors •  The winner takes all: as in academic sector >> reduc&on of cultural diversity and loss of cultural heritage •  Traspone, not translate and wihtout crea&vity •  More possibili&es, no use >> delusion and frustra&on = delay in diffusion •  Few techology >> poor products, not standard, expensive in industrial perspec&ve •  Too technology >> but poor content, and poor behaviour

The risks for higher edu (without EU support)

Key points & needs •  Semplicity: an european project is too complex to afford

•  Shorter & Smaller: in &me and financial needs

•  Good mix: publishing & technology together

•  Not only research, also industry •  Not too far, not to close: publishing for the next decade, not millennium

•  www.pandoracampus.it •  [email protected] •  [email protected]

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Andrea Angiolini, Il Mulino, about Pandoracampus @ Frankfurt Book Fair 2014, TISP workshop

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