Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, has announced that edX, the non-profit online learning initiative, has selected the VitalSource Bookshelf® e-textbook platform to distribute publisher content for its massive open online learning courses (MOOCs).
Vital Source will distribute e-textbook content from leading publishers to the millions of students who participate in edX courses annually. In a pilot of three participating courses offered by Harvard and MIT, tens of thousands of students collectively viewed more than 500,000 e-textbook pages delivered by Vital Source from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions.
Through the integration of edX with the Vital Source Bookshelf® platform, students and educators can interact with course content seamlessly and can share notes and highlights with peers around the world. Publishers that make content available through edX can expand the reach of their content to the global education community.
EdX is a non-profit venture offering more than 170 free, open, online courses from 47 academic institutions, nonprofits, corporations, and international organisations worldwide.
The VitalSource Bookshelf platform is the most used e-textbook delivery platform in higher education. It uses the latest technology to enhance the learning experience through e-textbooks and digital education. Content from hundreds of the world’s top academic publishers is available to VitalSource Bookshelf platform users, including those living with disabilities, on a variety of operating systems and devices. More than 6.5 million e-textbooks were delivered by Vital Source in 2013, and recently, Ingram expanded its digital textbook offer with the acquisition of CourseSmart.
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