May 5, 2021 • 1 minute read
By: Rick Johnson
I am proud of the tremendous progress that we have made in the accessibility of our products, and, even more critical, the outstanding progress the entire ecosystem has made in creating and adopting standards.
January 26, 2018 • 2 minute read
Recently, VitalSource retired our venerable, 18-year-old proprietary ebook format, known as Dash, DashML or VitalSource XML. As part of Dash’s retirement ceremony, we transitioned...
January 12, 2018 • 1 minute read
Helping publishers and educators create great content is an important part of our mission at VitalSource. Working toward this goal, we continually invest in VitalSource Content...
January 5, 2018 • 1 minute read
How many internal meetings have left your team saying, “if only we had a platform for those customers, we’d grow sales” or “If only we had a way to easily sell collections, we...
January 2, 2018 • 1 minute read
As a new year begins, the Bookshelf Online team has been reflecting on our goal of creating the best study center possible for our users. During 2017, we took our reader and added...
December 28, 2017 • 1 minute read
Before the calendar resets for 2018 – and the majority of our institutions, campus stores, and publishers enter the next rush, and while companies plan 2018’s new learning...
December 21, 2017 • 1 minute read
As a father or two young boys, I recently attended parent-teacher conferences where my children went through stations showing their recent work. When we reached the computer...
December 1, 2017 • 1 minute read
Extending the world’s most used learning content platform beyond higher education has long been a goal for VitalSource®. Specifically, we saw an opportunity to aid both learners...
November 15, 2017 • 1 minute read
VitalSource is committed to day-one success for faculty and students. In an earlier post we wrote about how to set your course up to facilitate this success (and hosted a webinar...
November 9, 2017 • 1 minute read
This post appeared in its entirety in eCampus News. The accessibility of learning content is undergoing a dramatic change right now. This change is being built upon existing...
October 31, 2017 • 1 minute read
As an undergrad, I went to a public university and, like most students, heavily relied on textbooks to complete and be successful in my studies. Early in my academic career, I...
October 20, 2017 • 1 minute read
It is an exciting time at VitalSource as Kathleen Hayes, a 25-year ed-tech veteran, has joined us as our new Director of Institutional Partnerships. Kathleen will lead our U.S....
October 18, 2017 • 1 minute read
In previous blogs, I wrote about the importance of a digital professional learning program and aspects that made a program “mature.” But that still leaves the question of how to...
