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FYI Bertha




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Sent: 29 February 2008 21:46
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Subject: [IFLA-L] re ebooks and econtent 2008

E-books and E-content 2008



University College London, 13 May 2008, 10.00 to 16.30



www.econtent2008.com



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 programme: this will be available shortly.

Conference fee: £110.00 per person.

Registration form: please CLICK HERE.



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