CourseSmartFaculty Instant Access

CourseSmart, LLC

• CourseSmart is the world’s largest provider of digital course materials.

• Provide anytime, anywhere access to course materials for students and faculty.

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CourseSmart, LLC

• Collaboration of higher education publishers

– Joint venture supported by McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Cengage Learning, Wiley, and Bedford/Freeman/Worth (Macmillan)

– Distribute content for many others…

– Elsevier, Walters Kluwer, Sage, Sinauer, FA Davis, Princeton University Press, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press and growing

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CourseSmart, LLC

• Currently, CourseSmart’s comprehensive catalog features over 20,000 titles – The most current and widely-adopted core textbooks

– Thousands of e-learning products produced by our publisher partners, such as Pearson’s MyLabs, and McGraw-Hill Connect

– Every academic discipline, > 1000 courses

– Greater than 90% of academic content in national demand today

• All on one site.

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CourseSmart for Faculty

• The CourseSmart Faculty User Experience maps to an instructor’s workflow as it relates to how they find out about, evaluate and access textbooks and other course material.

• Nearly 100,000 faculty use CourseSmart today to…

– Find out about what titles exist in courses they teach (59%)

– Evaluate new textbooks for adoption (64%)

– Have access to their adopted textbook to prepare for class or while teaching (58%)

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What we hear…

CourseSmart provides a way to gain immediate access to textbooks…. It is a convenient way to find out about newly released books. Also….[CourseSmart]….is a valuable asset for course preparation. Thanks for helping me work smarter and faster.

CourseSmart enables me to thoroughly evaluate textbooks and their accompanying resources. The website and tools are extremely easy to

use…

I wish that all of my textbooks were available on CourseSmart.com….

“I didn't realize just how beneficial 24/7 online access to textbook content would be until I began using CourseSmart. I've greatly improved the time-efficiency of all my course preparation efforts ….not to mention the process of finding and evaluating new texts for possible adoption.”

CourseSmart Faculty Instant Access

• CourseSmart’s Faculty Instant Access program is the easiest way for institutions to provide all instructors and faculty a more convenient way to learn about, access and evaluate course material.• Think: eTickets, or email…

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Faculty Instant AccessProgram Benefits

• Time savings and convenience

• Better information leads to more informed, timely decisions (HEOA)

• Expose you to new teaching & learning tools

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Faculty User Experience

• www.coursesmart.com/instructors

• One bookshelf for all titles and Search across bookshelf

• CourseSmart eReader (TOC, Search, Highlight, Take Notes, Email, Print)

• Instant Access Privileges: Search for and Request a new title

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Teaching with eTextbooks

• Building your Bookshelf

• Class Prep

• Presentation

• Communication with students

My Bookshelf

Selecting an Examination Copy

• Screen shot of “Request Online Examination Copy”

Class Prep: Search by Topic

Class Prep: Bookshelf Search

Class Prep: Notes Function

Classroom Presentation

Communicating with Students

Fair Use/Terms of Service• Copy/Paste: can copy one page at a time, only indexed, written text,

not a full page image. (except w/iPad application, where you can copy regions of a single page that will display w/a CourseSmart watermark)

• Embedded links: can send or embed link to any page. If the student has purchased the eTextbook, he/she can log in and see the full page; if not, he/she will see a preview of that page.

• Email: can send an email from any page, the message will include a link to that page that a student can log in and see in full (if purchased) or in preview mode.

• Print: 10 pages at a time, up to 150% of the total page count

• For more information on how to use our service, please visit: http://www.coursesmart.com/termsofservice

What Instructors Like Best…

1. When searching for the best textbook for your students, you can use CourseSmart to find available titles in the courses you teach, and easy-to-use tools in the bookshelf and eReader help you quickly narrow down your selection.

2. When teaching, CourseSmart gives you convenient access to your adopted textbooks anytime, anywhere you have Internet access, from home, office or classroom.

3. CourseSmart is also a reliable way to help students get instant access to your assigned textbook at savings of up to 60%.

Opportunity

• CourseSmart is currently recruiting institutions to participate in a custom-designed, system level integration of this service

• Campus system integration delivers SSO access to CourseSmart for instructors with Instant Access privileges:

• No cost to the institution

• Design and communicate program together

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Your Questions?

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Next Steps

• Level of interest?

• To move forward, who else would need to be involved in this discussion?

• What next steps should we consider toward implementation?