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.
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...
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...
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 10, 2017 • 2 minute read
This post appeared in its entirety in University Business. There is no doubt that today we live in a digital age, with our lives seemingly governed by the provision of connected,...
September 19, 2017 • 1 minute read
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, enrollment in two- and four-year degree-granting programs rose from 13.2 to 17 million students (an increase of 30...
September 12, 2017 • 1 minute read
One of the best things about my job is being able to go out and meet the faculty and administrators who are working to ensure all students have access to affordable course...
September 6, 2017 • 1 minute read
I have spent my entire career working with college and university campus stores to promote access to affordable course materials for all students. The academic success of college...
August 25, 2017 • 2 minute read
This piece appeared in its entirety in the July 3, 2017 edition of eCampus News. I’ve always considered myself a good student. I would dutifully tote textbooks and color-coded...
July 20, 2017 • 1 minute read
We often think of the obstacles that prevent students from attending college as being financial—and I am not discounting the importance of cost as a barrier—but there are also...
May 23, 2017 • 2 minute read
In 2007, as undergraduates, we started a student government project to lower the cost of textbooks through price comparison. The goal was to help fellow students find their course...
April 21, 2017 • 2 minute read
Post originally ran in SmartChimps on April 7, 2017Everyday our university students head to lectures with a staggering amount of computing power in their hands. In fact, the...
December 12, 2016 • 1 minute read
Last month, our own Mike Hale wrote about course-fee models as the way to ensure all college students had their required course materials on or before the first day of classes. As...
