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News article ( 15th Jul. 2010 )
CourseSmart, US’s largest digital course materials provider, this week announced the launch of a new, custom-designed program for universities and colleges across the country, which provides faculty members with easy and convenient access to eTextbook formats of more than 90% of the most popular textbooks.
CourseSmart's Faculty Instant Access Program enables authorized faculty members the ability to gain immediate access to an ever-expanding library of digital content while connected to an institution's Learning Management System or Campus Portal. CourseSmart developed the "Faculty Instant Access" program to allow seamless, single sign-on access for instructors, creating a significantly more efficient way for them to find out about, access, evaluate, and use complete eTextbooks and other digital learning resources from the world's leading publishers.
As the exclusive provider of eTextbook evaluation copies, all faculty at the nation's colleges and universities have the potential to use CourseSmart to find and evaluate textbooks and resources, and view materials anytime, anywhere. The Faculty Instant Access program is initially being rolled out to a select group of innovative higher education institutions to provide their faculty with an optimized eTextbook experience, offering improved access within their respective campus systems for expanded review opportunities of all core higher education eTextbooks and new digital learning tools.
Faculty members at the universities that have been invited to participate, which will be announced in the coming weeks, will be the first to have access to this program. The Faculty Instant Access program provides instructors with real-time on-demand access within their campus systems. These systems include Learning Management Systems such as Moodle, Sakai, Desire2Learn and Blackboard, as well as Campus Portals such as SunGard Luminis, Datatel Portal and uPortal.
"Digital content capabilities are rapidly changing the way that institutions, instructors and students access and use educational materials. The new Faculty Instant Access program creates a more streamlined evaluation-to-selection process for instructors while introducing them to digital tools that can enhance their students' classroom experience and ease their administrative burden," said Sean Devine, CEO of CourseSmart. "As a result of the Higher Education Opportunity Act, faculty are under pressure to select the best materials for their students faster and sooner than ever before. In creating this new program, we are focused on supporting institutions and their faculty members as they embrace the digital transformation of education and make the often time consuming process of selecting course resources as digitally efficient and simple to manage as possible."
CourseSmart's advanced enterprise architecture, leveraging the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability [LTI] standard and other widely-used authentication protocols like Shibboleth, ensures a secure, flexible and lightweight integration within a campus enterprise system, including almost any LMS or SIS platform. With its architecture, CourseSmart provides each school with 'single sign-on' (SSO) access to its respective campus system and provides faculty with privileged access across the entire CourseSmart system and catalogue. Further, CourseSmart's program offers a reader through its downloadable Mac and Windows version that addresses all accessibility standards, ensuring all faculty members who are blind or have low vision are able to take advantage of the Faculty Instant Access program.
Visit www.coursesmart.com to learn more.
Source/Author: www.prnewswire.com
Published: 15th Jul. 2010 |
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