tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5992644248766561678.post1010232470732957513..comments2023-10-12T21:47:44.939+11:00Comments on Pub Date Critical: A Presentation on Digital Futures - My Speech to the AGM of the Australian Campus Booksellers AssociationPeter Donoughuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02697552041984454181noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5992644248766561678.post-11843490091868744512009-11-14T10:46:15.342+11:002009-11-14T10:46:15.342+11:00Hi Susannah
Of course, you're right about ind...Hi Susannah<br /><br />Of course, you're right about individual student purchase being the way things work now, and will continue to be well into the future in my mind.<br /><br />However there need be no conflict between university administered LMSs and student subsciption funding models. The publisher gets the adoption, then downloads all the course management material to the university system. Individual students access the content (formerly in the textbook) via a code issued to them upon paying the publisher directly. <br /><br />I'm certainly no techie, but versions of this model are operating now.Peter Donoughuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02697552041984454181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5992644248766561678.post-3368775863162170462009-11-12T22:23:42.667+11:002009-11-12T22:23:42.667+11:00Hi Peter, another issue is the financial model. If...Hi Peter, another issue is the financial model. If it was all about most usable format for the end purpose of education, tertiary learning materials wouldn't be books / ebooks at all - as you mention, they would be learning and educational content seamlessly integrated into the LMSs. <br />But most tertiary institutions and in particular undergraduate courses don't have the funding modes for that to work - so the products have to be formatted for individual purchase - just because that's the way the current financial structures work, not because it's what lecturers want or what's best for learning. Commercial imperatives dictating the pedagogical model - what a shock!<br />When libraries get in on the UG resources act, or the "no pay for assessment" legislation is changed, it will be a very different landscape. Now is the opportunity for our bookselling friends to move into this picture!Susannah Bowennoreply@blogger.com