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Lessons from COVID-19: Using Digital Content to Increase Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Digital content can help improve accessibility for students from diverse backgrounds and promote equity in higher education.

WCET Webcast: The 60 Year Degree: Learning Without Boundaries

BibliU participated in a conversation with education innovation experts about the increasing need for lifelong learning and the "60-year degree."

Libraries

BibliU & Santa Fe Community College | An Accessible Solution for Quarantine

BibliU partnered with Santa Fe Community College to help students avoid the time-consuming quarantine protocol for physical textbooks.

Events

Making Digital Learning Work for Today's Students | Interview with University of Phoenix's Provost, John Woods

Before lockdown, BibliU had the chance to interview John Woods, Provost and Chief Academic officer at the University of Phoenix. Dave asked him about the large-scale online program at Phoenix and how they do things differently to benefit their diverse student population.

Libraries

BibliU & Occidental College | Digital Reserves Pilot

BibliU is running a pilot with the Occidental College library (Los Angeles) to provide digital textbook reserves to an initial cohort of its students as the transition to online learning becomes more prevalent.

Product & Company Updates

BibliU and the University of Phoenix | a Trail-Blazing Partnership

BibliU is partnering with the University of Phoenix to deliver low-cost, highly accessible digital content to its students. Read more about the flagship agreement here!

Weekly Higher Education Digest

Higher Ed News Bulletin, 3rd July 2020

A crowdfunded Free Black University and how recruitment outreach will be transformed after Covid-19. Here’s Dave Sherwood's latest round up!

Weekly Higher Education Digest

Higher Ed News Digest, 25th June 2020

Higher Ed used as a mode of exercising “soft power” and one university’s attempt to order 1,200 hand-sanitizer stations. Here’s my latest roundup:

Product & Company Updates

Black Lives Matter and BibliU

The past two weeks have brought about a significant reflection of systemic racism in the U.K., the U.S. and abroad. We believe that the education and publishing industries have an opportunity

Weekly Higher Education Digest

Higher Ed News Digest, 11th June 2020

This week's digest features several stories that cover equity in 2020, the importance of strong lecturer-student communication while online learning, and more.

Weekly Higher Education Digest

Higher Ed News Digest, 5th June 2020

Check out this week's Higher Ed Digest. It covers fall preparations for college reopenings, university responses to the George Floyd protests, how professors can deal with lockdown teaching constraints, and more!

Weekly Higher Education Digest

Higher Ed News Digest, 28th May 2020

Check out this week's Higher Ed Digest. It covers the forecast by Brandon Busteed of Forbes that institutions will switch to the model of an ‘evergreen degree,’ the value of a degree under current conditions, and more!

Weekly Higher Education Digest

Higher Ed News Digest, 21 May 2020

This weeks digest features several stories that cover the financial uncertainty in Higher Education due to the pandemic. I hope you find them as useful as I did in structuring thoughts and predictions about the future.

Product & Company Updates

BibliU Receives Perfect 100% ASPIRE Score for Accessibility

With the announcement that BibliU has received a perfect 100% rating on accessibility from the external auditor ASPIRE, we've become the gold standard among providers of digital content globally.

Product & Company Updates

BibliU Raises $10 Million to Empower Remote Learning for Students in the U.K. and the U.S.

BibliU, a digital learning platform that makes textbooks and reading materials more accessible than ever before, has secured $10 million in a Series A equity round. Read more about it here!

Events

6 Tips for Remote Learning | BibliU Webinar

We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Andrew Knight, Team Leader of Collections Discovery Services at the University of Roehampton, to discuss remote learning in these trying times. Check out our webinar on how to make your transition to #remotelearning quick and seamless.

Institutions

COVID-19 Statement and BibliU's 2 Month Offer

We are committed to helping you and your students fight through this disruption together.

6 Ways a Digital Textbook Can Bring Us All Closer Together

Remote learning is becoming the new normal as more institutions make the transition to help their students reach their educational goals. Digital content is playing a vital role in that strategy.

Institutions

The Students Aren't All Right. Can #Edtech Help Students Stay in School?

A Major Issue for any Education Provider in the United States is Student Retention, especially at For-Profit Universities. Here the CEO of BibliU Dave Sherwood examines why, and what can be done to solve this crucial challenge.

Institutions

Implementation Starter Guide: 6 Tips to Get Your New Digital Content Strategy off the Ground.

From inspiring stakeholders, setting measurements that map back to your program goals, to bringing various forms of content into the mix, we have you covered.

Institutions

App Overload! Let's Declutter Your Institution's #Edtech

What is siloing? Well, it’s when different departments in an institution for one reason or another don’t collaborate. They each have their own technologies, their own approaches, their own silos. Those departments like to hunker down, close ranks — so the story goes.

Institutions

Do We Involve the Students? 3 Lessons for Student-Centric #Edtech

Educause has released its annual review of the Top 10 Issues in Digital Implementation of #edtech. How important is it that students are involved? Very, says BibliU CEO Dave Sherwood @davejlsherwood @BibliUSocial

Institutions

Three Takeaways to Meet Your Access and Participation Goals

Increasing Access and Participation is a key goal for the Office for Students — and one that is very much shared by BibliU. Our CEO Dave Sherwood shares some of our experiences and advice for succeeding with APP initiatives. @davejlsherwood @BibliUSocial

The Death of the Physical Textbook? Three Accelerating Trends in #Edtech

Are the days of the Physical Textbook over? BibliU CEO Dave Sherwood goes over 3 trends he thinks are accelerating in #edtech.

Institutions

Expert Implementation Tips: Making the Switch From Print to Digital

We sat down with Lincoln University's Ian Snowley, Dean of Student Learning Development and University Librarian, to ask him, "What tips do you have for institutions that are looking into implementing a digital program?"