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Initial assessment of 20 high-enrollment courses \u2014 including science, business, and English \u2014 gathers quantitative information about the cost of textbooks for IU students.<\/p>\n
Pilot program begins with the university and publishers subsidizing the first three semesters of the pilot. Students receive eTexts at no cost during this evaluation period.<\/p>\n
Courseload, an Indianapolis based e-reader provider founded by Mickey Levitan, supplies the reading software.<\/p>\n
VP for IT & CIO Wheeler meets with faculty authors, student groups, faculty councils, etc. to assess the problem and solutions.<\/p>\n
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February<\/strong> \u2014 eText program kicks off with townhall meetings at IU Bloomington and IUPUI.<\/p>\n February<\/strong> \u2014 IU releases Request for Proposal to publishers.<\/p>\n September<\/strong> \u2014 IU signs agreements with John Wiley & Sons Inc., Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, W.W. Norton, Flat World Knowledge, and McGraw-Hill Education.<\/p>\n September<\/strong>\u2014IU President Michael A. McRobbie approves the eText program rollout to all campuses.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n January<\/strong> \u2014 Spring semester is the first full semester of IU's eTexts Initiative: 5,300 students in 127 sections use eTexts.<\/p>\n January<\/strong> \u2014 The Indiana University Press joins the IU eTexts program.<\/p>\n February<\/strong> \u2014 Harvard Business Publishing joins the IU eTextsprogram.<\/p>\n May<\/strong> \u2014 Pearson joins the IU eTexts program.<\/p>\n June<\/strong> \u2014 IDG's CIO magazine honors Indiana University as a recipient of the 2012 CIO 100 award based on the eText program.<\/p>\n September<\/strong> \u2014 Elsevier's Science & Technology Books joins the IU eTexts program.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n January<\/strong> \u2014 In the spring semester, nearly 10,000 students in 250 course sections are using eTexts. Comparisons show that amounts to $200,000 in total savings over next-best options.<\/p>\n March<\/strong> \u2014 Cengage Learning and SAGE join the IU eTextsprogram.<\/p>\n May<\/strong> \u2014 IDG's Computerworld Honors Program names Indiana University as a 2013 Laureate for its eTexts initiative.<\/p>\n May<\/strong> \u2014 Courseload, Inc. and Indiana University are gold recipients of the IMS Global Learning Consortium's Learning Impact Awards for the eText initiative.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n September<\/strong> \u2014 IU expands its eText contracts with McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson to include more titles at better pricing and expand access to digital learning tools.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n July<\/strong> \u2014 Unizin acquires the Courseload software. IU migrates, without interruption, from the Courseload system to the Unizin system.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n September<\/strong> \u2014 IU\u2019s pioneering eText initiative surpasses $10 million in total revenue, having grown to more than 40,000 students in the last academic year.<\/p>\n The program is accelerating with more than $1 million in year-to-year growth and 1,350 available titles. Fall semester alone totals $3 million, with more than 27,000 IU students having at least one of 55,000 licensed eTexts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n February<\/strong> \u2014 Unizin and Cengage partner to make all of the latter's digital course offerings available to Unizin's member institutions as part its eText program.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n February<\/strong> \u2014 As part of a Unizin contract, IU gets a new deal with McGraw-Hill that provides for a $35 flat price for the eText version of any McGraw Hill eText and either $50 or $60 for one of their adaptive courses including interactive tutorials, homework grading, etc.<\/p>\n\n","rendered":" <\/p>\n Initial assessment of 20 high-enrollment courses \u2014 including science, business, and English \u2014 gathers quantitative information about the cost of textbooks for IU students.<\/p>\n Pilot program begins with the university and publishers subsidizing the first three semesters of the pilot. Students receive eTexts at no cost during this evaluation period.<\/p>\n Courseload, an Indianapolis based e-reader provider founded by Mickey Levitan, supplies the reading software.<\/p>\n VP for IT & CIO Wheeler meets with faculty authors, student groups, faculty councils, etc. to assess the problem and solutions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n February<\/strong> \u2014 eText program kicks off with townhall meetings at IU Bloomington and IUPUI.<\/p>\n February<\/strong> \u2014 IU releases Request for Proposal to publishers.<\/p>\n September<\/strong> \u2014 IU signs agreements with John Wiley & Sons Inc., Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, W.W. Norton, Flat World Knowledge, and McGraw-Hill Education.<\/p>\n September<\/strong>\u2014IU President Michael A. 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Comparisons show that amounts to $200,000 in total savings over next-best options.<\/p>\n March<\/strong> \u2014 Cengage Learning and SAGE join the IU eTextsprogram.<\/p>\n May<\/strong> \u2014 IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program names Indiana University as a 2013 Laureate for its eTexts initiative.<\/p>\n May<\/strong> \u2014 Courseload, Inc. and Indiana University are gold recipients of the IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Learning Impact Awards for the eText initiative.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n September<\/strong> \u2014 IU expands its eText contracts with McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson to include more titles at better pricing and expand access to digital learning tools.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n July<\/strong> \u2014 Unizin acquires the Courseload software. 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