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Content Mgmt Services
Digital Delivery Update
- May 2012 Jane Stanhope
May 30, 2012
Agenda
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2012 Delivery Services Update
 eText
 Mobile
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Workflow Integration
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NexText
eText Update
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eText 4.6 – Complete
 Internal release to support PCL and DL projects
 Improvements to the Toolkit
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eText v4.7 – Development complete, now in QA
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Targeting 16 June
Server Federation
Flex Bookshelf migrated to HTML – Demo
Faster load time
Ability to control underline and transparency of hotspots in Authoring on an
individual basis
 Support for Chromebook
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eText v4.8 – In Planning
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Additional Analytics feeds (potentially in v4.7.5)
Gadgets API for persistent data
RUMBA version of LTI (S11) for iML and NMEL
Language Picker
Android app now on Google Play!
eText for iPad and Android
 eText for iPad v1.1.1 – In Final Test
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Released for HiEd; School version in final test
Improved display performance for all iPads including iPad3
Will require minimum iOS v5.0
Adding “Common Core” tag for School app to search on iTunes
 eText for Android v1.1 – Available now on Google Play!
 RUMBA and SMS version released
 eCollege version now is SQA
 eText for iPad/Android v1.2 – In Development
 Targeting an August release
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Support for federated servers
Support for transparent/underline hotspots
French iPad localization
Support for full multi-tasking on iPad
Two-line display of Book title (iPad)
Forced landscape (iPad)
Limit 2-page display (iPad)
Automated Workflow
 Working to complete full-scale automation for
eText title creation directly from the new
integrated workflows.
 HiEd in 2012; School in 2013
 Goal would be to eliminate nearly all the current manual
activities.
 Expect connection to Documentum to be complete by
December of this year.
 This automation takes advantage of workflow
processes as well as the Content Planning Tool
and Documentum.
NexText I – Demo ready in Jan 2013
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New eText environment that combines *smart* content and workflow strategies
by utilizing taxonomies, learning objectives, basic (study and practice)
assessments, and modular re-flowable content with rich media and interactivity.
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In addition to standalone and library offerings, we will combine this experience
with Next Gen Learning Applications and other key initiatives.
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NexText applications will be born mobile; supporting tablets and small-form
factor devices (e.g. iPod Touch, iPhone, and Android smartphones).
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Content will be based on XHTML5 and capable of creating ePUB3 files
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NexText will leverage existing eText server infrastructure and share core
features and code components including platform integration models,
SMS/RUMBA integrations and connections to Digital Libraries. The NexText
application will be born into new Integrated Workflow.
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NexText products will coexist with existing eText titles so that students and
faculty with access to fidelity eText titles can move back-and-forth to their
bookshelf (or Digital Library) and into NexText titles.
NexText II - Summer 2013
 Second major release of NexText
 Including a new rules-engine that enables *smart*
recommendations for students studying key topics
 A natural extension of the *smart* content concepts
 Combines learning objectives, taxonomy topics, basic
assessments, analytics, and methods adapted from learning
research and cognitive psychology
 Scalable model to achieve an interactive eBook experience.
 Focus will be on providing a lightweight student experience
that “recommends” rather than “replaces.”
 Approach will deliver powerful extension to the traditional study
paradigm and substantively differentiates Pearson from other
eBook technologies.
Next Meeting
 Wed June 20th 3:30 – 4:30 pm EST
 PPT will be posted to NEO site
 https://neo.pearson.com/groups/etext
 Become a member!
Jane Stanhope
1-617-671-3457