Baker & Taylor, a distributor of digital and physical books, has announced its exclusive partnership with LightSail Education to provide its vast portfolio of digital books and robust KnowledgePoint content management solutions to LightSail's groundbreaking K-12 digital literacy platform.
The new integrated solution will ensure that LightSail's tablet-based e-reading platform offers the widest possible selection of engaging digital books through an integrated delivery and management system, further enhancing its effectiveness as a tool for teachers and administrators to measure individual student progress toward Common Core standards. LightSail's interactive technology embeds assessments into students' reading and provides educators with actionable, real-time data that they can use to monitor and improve student literacy.
LightSail's innovative software has been awarded top honours by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and industry groups such as the Software & Information Industry Association's education division. Building on the award-winning LightSail platform and combining this with the powerful suite of tools Baker & Taylor provides K-12 schools across the country, Baker & Taylor's integrated KnowledgePoint solution allows schools to effectively utilise digital content in a seamless process from content curation and purchasing to management and assessment.
Baker & Taylor's KnowledgePoint solution brings together the industry's best and most reliable library and education platforms, enabling all the important aspects of education to work together. With an expansive collection of content available, KnowledgePoint is simple to integrate and even easier to use. Through its powerful solutions, it allows schools to have multiple repositories of ebooks to supply to classrooms, libraries and reading rooms simultaneously. And it makes managing content seamless — with intuitive searching, purchasing and allocation systems.
