September 14, 2022 • 1 minute read
By: Mike Hale, Ph.D., Chief Learning and Content Officer
VitalSource has long been committed to increasing student success through easy access to affordable content. We also believe that if you can, you must improve learning for students and expand educational opportunities for all learners. Of course, we are not alone in this view and it is the reason many companies have built assessment-rich course materials.
April 24, 2018 • 1 minute read
The Washington Post recently explored the revolution in college course materials in an article published on April 14, 2018. The article investigated questions about cost,...
March 30, 2018 • 2 minute read
We’ve written before on this blog about the promise of digital textbooks to improve the learning experience for students with special needs. Today, I’d like to take a closer look...
March 8, 2018 • 1 minute read
Designing courses can be a challenge, especially for an online environment. There are many tasks involved, such as defining competencies, identifying appropriate content, creating...
March 1, 2018 • 2 minute read
After the spring back-to-school rush, our friends in the independent campus store industry come together for two key conferences, the Independent Collegiate Bookstore Association...
February 13, 2018 • 1 minute read
At VitalSource, we’re all about improving learning outcomes and affordability, at scale. While digital delivery of materials through new models like Inclusive Access have made...
February 8, 2018 • 1 minute read
Across the nation, a growing number of colleges and universities are looking for innovative solutions that can help lower costs and raise student achievement.One of the many...
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...
