E-books and E-content
2008
University
College London, 13 May 2008, 10.00 to 16.30
E-books and e-content are becoming prevalent in all
institutions - educational, cultural and commercial - through licensing,
digitisation programmes, digital libraries and original content authoring.
Content is also becoming more interactive and multimedia. At the same time many
organisations are looking at new e-learning strategies which put e-content right
at the centre. So how can organisations maximise the use of e-books and
e-content to support these emerging e-learning agendas? Should they look to
develop new content or turn to the publishing sector for ready-made solutions?
Should they use the increasingly freely available content through national
resource banks and other open access repositories? Should they develop and
re-purpose e-content from existing resources to suit new audiences? And how best
can resource managers integrate with other e-learning systems and frameworks
such as VLEs and library systems and provide the support that students need?
Finally, how are students using e-content in their learning at the moment - and
how will this inform how we design content for the future?
This year's
e-content meeting will look at these questions with input from e-content
developers, e-publishers, business analysts, e-learning experts, researchers and
through user case studies. Experts and practitioners will assess good practice
from the UK, Europe and internationally.
The event will be of
interest to anyone involved with delivering and developing e-content, with
supporting e-learning and with the e-publishing business in general, including
librarians, learning support staff, educationalists, publishers and rights
owners in these markets.
The programme for E-books and E-content
2008 is being finalised but will include contributions from:
• the
publishing sector: Rod Bristow, CEO of Pearson Education, a leading
global publisher of e-content including Safari Books, who will take a global and
strategic view of e-content, and Dan Burnstone from Proquest (which now
includes CSA), the international company involved with collecting, organising
and publishing electronic information of all types, will present their
view;
• from an OECD perspective, Jan Hylen from Stockholm will
argue the case for Open Access e-learning resources and the development of OA
educational resource banks. He will review alternative business models and
report on the OECD work in this area;
• from education, Sue
McKnight, Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources at Nottingham Trent
University and an international expert on e-learning and e-learning resources,
will take an educational perspective whilst Liam Earney and Caren
Milloy from JISC Collections will talk about the new project focusing on the
copyright challenges of re-purposing content for use in e-learning; John
Casey, the Jorum Manager based at the University of Edinburgh, will speak on
the UK national educational content repository, JORUM.
• from CIBER at
UCL, Dr Ian Rowlands will report on recent research at UCL on the Google
Generation, examining how we search and use e-content, and amongst other case
studies Barry Spencer of Bromley College will describe using Second Life
to create content.
• The event will be chaired by Elizabeth
Chapman, Deputy Director of UCL Library Services, and Anthony
Watkinson of the Centre for Publishing at UCL.
E-books and
E-content 2008 will be hosted by UCL's Centre for
Publishing, part of the School of Library Archive and
Information Studies.
Venue: Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre,
Chemistry Building.
Conference fee: £110.00 per person.
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