Cambridge University Press (CUP), the publishing division of the UK's University of Cambridge, and software provider Read & Note LLC have completed a 12-week pilot of online textbooks. Both parties worked with schools in the UK, USA and Malaysia to investigate how teachers and students use digital resources in the real world.
Read & Note's online platform delivers e-books over the web in highly usable form. Teachers and students can then annotate their books and organise, edit and share those notes for later learning. As a result, they can work whether they're at home, at school or even on the move using a tablet.
For this pilot, Cambridge recruited over a dozen schools from across the world (the UK, the USA and Malaysia) and several hundred users. Over the 12 weeks of the pilot, users had full online access to Cambridge's new, market-leading coursebooks for the International Baccalaureate Diploma via Read & Note's platform. As a result, the partners have been able to learn which features of an online e-book platform teachers and students actually value, and how they use the system after the initial trial period is over.
The two companies will be using the data gathered from the pilot to develop materials that improve the learning experience for both students and teachers.
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