{"id":6008,"date":"2012-01-20T14:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=6008"},"modified":"2012-11-20T15:26:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:26:13","slug":"webinar-to-address-digital-textbook-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/webinar-to-address-digital-textbook-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar to address digital textbook trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The role of colleges and universities in the shift from print to digital textbooks, also called eTexts, is the topic of a free<em>\u00a0Educause Live!\u00a0<\/em>webinar, hosted by NAU\u2019s eLearning Center at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, both in person and online.<\/p>\n<p>The webinar will address two common perspectives about eTexts\u2014one being that they are a consumer transaction between a publisher and student and that institutions need not be involved. Another perspective is that volume licensing by institutions can dramatically reduce the costs to students and improve the terms through a business-to-business negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>Participants can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/net.educause.edu\/content.asp?SECTION_ID=661&amp;bhcp=1\">register<\/a>\u00a0to attend either at the e-Learning Center on the third floor of Gammage, bldg. 1, room 305, or to participate online.<\/p>\n<p>For information, contact Debbie Shepard at (928) 523-1239 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Debbie.Shepard@nau.edu\">Debbie.Shepard@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/webinar-to-address-digital-textbook-trend\/\">The role of colleges and universities in the shift from print to digital textbooks, also called eTexts, is the topic of a free\u00a0Educause Live!\u00a0webinar, hosted by NAU\u2019s eLearning Center at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, both in person and online. The webinar will address two common perspectives about eTexts\u2014one being that they are a consumer&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}