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AL$ Webinar #1 Agenda  Welcome and AL$ Overview (Hanley, 10 mins)  AL$ Efforts and CSUDH (Moy, 10 mins)  Vendor Presentation, CaféScribe (Pisney, 15 mins)  Joys and Concerns About Your AL$ efforts (Hanley, 15 mins)  Emerging Needs and Next Steps (Hanley, 5 mins)  Summary and Next Meeting’s Agenda (Hanley, 5 mins)

3 Making It Easier To Find  Alternative Content  Tools  Technologies  Policies  Marketing & deployment strategies

4 CSU Provides System Access to No- and Low-Cost Textbook Alternatives  Open Textbooks: Over 2,000 FREE online textbooks are available through the AL$ website  CSU Library eBooks: CSU systemwide electronic library collections provide students FREE access to eBooks  Faculty-Authored Materials: Published and distributed in a variety of ways  Lower Cost Publisher eTextbooks: Digital rentals in the CSU

About Digital Textbooks in the CSU  Digital textbooks cost 45%-55% less than new print textbook prices  33% of CSU students prefer digital textbooks  1% of all titles sold in CSU bookstores are digital textbooks 5 There is an unmet demand in the marketplace

6 Digital Rentals: Design Principles  Choice  Price  Convenience  Accessibility Lessons learned from CSU research …..Are Key Success Factors

7 Digital Rentals: Here’s the Deal  Price: 60% off new print textbook prices  Publishers choose the titles they will offer  Marketing: CSU and vendors will collaborate on raising awareness, comfort, and competencies in using digital textbooks  Accessibility: Vendors will provide the CSU a roadmap for improving the accessibility of their eReaders Agreement on 3 key areas:

8 Digital Rentals: Who’s Playing?  CourseSmart: Independent bookstores  Café Scribe: Follett bookstores  NookStudy: Barnes & Noble bookstores  Cengage Learning: 27% of higher ed market Vendors Serve all CSU Campuses Today’s Partner Presenting:  Café Scribe: Follett bookstores  Presenter: Liz Pisney

9 Digital Rentals: What’s the Schedule?  March 6-7 Workshop at Chancellor’s Office  April 14 CSU Conference on Teaching  Webinars by CSU campuses & vendors  Supporting Campus AL$ Initiatives Spring-Summer 2012: Faculty/Staff-focused activities  Campus Outreach: Student awareness of choice  Cal State Student Association communication program  CSU Public Affairs program Fall 2012: Student-focused activities

10 If 1/3 of CSU students choose 1 digital rental per semester instead of a new $100 print textbook…..  CSU students will save about $17 Million in Digital Rentals: Student Savings

11 Affordable Learning Solutions Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models Developing Demand with communications, training, professional development Creating Capabilities with convenient & affordable access to content (CSU Digital Marketplace) Leveraging Content Providers Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors--Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)

Campus Showcase: Dominguez Hills  Naomi Moy, Director, Reference Services  Chief Conspirator, CSUDH

CSUDH AL$ Summary  127 Faculty Participants  106 Faculty Participants AY with faculty representation from all colleges  Potential student savings Fall 2010 – Fall 2011: $490,666 for 147 courses, 6,918 students  Bookstore savings to students, Fall 2010 – Spring 2012: $808,949

The Beginning Stages  Planning and Discussions: CSU, Provost, Library, Dean’s Council; Bookstore; Campus Information Technology, Technology Advisory Committee, Academic Senate & Senate Executive Committee  Bringing AL$ to faculty via college-specific workshops, special grant project, and departmental meetings  s to faculty introducing AL$

Lighting the Fire  Bookstore finds rentals and offers rentals even when CSUDH is the only Follett campus to offer a title.  Library matches its e-Resources to class required textbooks and notifies faculty  Faculty make specific search requests  AL$ webpage, especially AL$ Faculty Showcase (

Faculty Recognition  Faculty Showcase with individual faculty pages listing resources and links to resource used  2011 and 2012 Faculty Recognition Receptions with certificates of recognition/ appreciation given to each participant  Also provide personally addressed invitations, s, etc.

Our Primary Resources  Library focus on resources free to students  Ebrary e-books  EBSCO e-books  Publisher direct e-books  Articles from subscription databases  OERs found in MERLOT  Also low-cost books or digital books with value- added online resources.

Campus Grants  Campus supported additional resources with award of two lottery grants and Presidential Creative Initiative Program providing $50,000 for purchase of electronic resources and $11,000 for 15 iPads for student check-out  CSUDH AL$ project can be found at

Questions or Comments Regarding CSUDH

What is CafeScribe? Free web-based eReader Interact with the text: read highlight notes search Create custom study guides with Snap Summary Interact with other users – community notes Downloadable offline version One platform providing content from over 85 publishing partners Over 25,000 titles Custom publishing opportunities For sale in-store, online and affiliate sites

Ease of Mobility Web browser-based platform  Anywhere, anytime access Device independent  Can be used on any web-enabled device: Macs and PCs iOS and Android tablets and smart phones Option to download  Can download book to a computer for offline studying

CafeScribe Rent Digital Rental (Subscription) Students can access the digital book for a predetermined rental period (e.g., 180 days) The rental period starts when the book is activated All notes and highlights remain available even when the rental period has expired CafeScribe Digital Book Ticket Pads Digital Rent

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Joys & Concerns About Your AL$ Activities Sharing your experiences of what’s working and not working is very helpful for all of us to continuously improve our AL$ services  What activities are bringing joy to you, your faculty, your students, your students’ parents, and/or your staff?  What activities are bringing less than positive experiences to you, your faculty, your students, your students’ parents, and/or your staff?

Emerging Needs and Next Steps  Summarize what the Chancellor’s Office might do to address campus needs.  Summarize what campuses might do to address AL$ program needs

Next CSU AL$ webinar  June 28, 2012 from 12:00 – 1:00p –Campus feature on Pomona –Vendor feature on Cengage Learning –More updates regarding CSU AL$ support –Further dialog regarding your needs toward making a CSU education more affordable JOIN THE CSU AL$ ONLINE COMMUNITY AT learning-solutions-community