July 29th 2009 - Top ten reasons to go digital but stay local

Author: Craig Schoen

Going Digital and staying local is the term we use to explain how to provide custom digital course ware to your students, while ensuring a simple and consistent way to pick up and pay for the content at the book store or the print center. The top ten reasons to go digital and stay local:

1) Easy to price, distribute and collect payment for course packs.

2) Ensures schools are in control of their knowledge assets by having their own distribution system that produces digital hard copies.

3) Lower your cost on consumables like paper and toner.

4) Reduce maintenance and fixed costs associated with printing machines.



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July 20th 2009 - The importance of the book store and print center

Author: Craig Schoen

Copy centres / printing services and bookstores are used to one thing, paper. For the past 60 years every university has had a bookstore and copy centre handle the distribution and custom creation of course content. What is important about this is the model, professor requests textbook or course pack and the bookstore and copy centre works in a key supporting role to ensure the professors materials are there on time. Some of the roles they take are with copyright clearance, assembly, distribution and money collection, customer service and the list goes on. The Copy Center becomes even more important when you think of knowledge as the Universities core asset that needs to be manage and protected.

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June 24th 2009 - How Using less, will get you more

Author: Craig Schoen

We know how important the support systems like copy centers and book stores are important to the University ecology. So we did what we thought was right, we talked to people in the industry and found out what would make sense as a digital distribution model. The end result of this conversation and Research is our coursepack builder and Point of sale Desktop application.

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June 14th 2009 - Two Important Things About Custom Course Ware

Author: Craig Schoen

In the world of digital publishing on a large or small scale really comes down to two things, what is the distribution set up and who controls price. Distribution in many cases is defined for reasons such as where the information will be accessed, who is purchasing, where are the demand drivers (Professors and Courses Located), How much effort is required to assemble and copyright clear the content and most importantly how much of a core asset is the content to the organization?

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June 10th 2009 - Where do we fit?

Author: Craig Schoen

That seems to be the question everyone is asking themselves today. Where is the future going with paper. From every classroom to every board meeting it is on peoples minds, and for good reason. When you break this paradigm shift into its basic components it becomes a shift not just of medium, but how we share and gain knowledge from that medium.

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