Transcript Four Blocks
Content Mgmt Services
Digital Delivery Update
- May 2012 Jane Stanhope
May 30, 2012
Agenda
2012 Delivery Services Update
eText
Mobile
Workflow Integration
NexText
eText Update
eText 4.6 – Complete
Internal release to support PCL and DL projects
Improvements to the Toolkit
eText v4.7 – Development complete, now in QA
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
eText v4.8 – In Planning
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
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
Planned features:
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
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.
In addition to standalone and library offerings, we will combine this experience
with Next Gen Learning Applications and other key initiatives.
NexText applications will be born mobile; supporting tablets and small-form
factor devices (e.g. iPod Touch, iPhone, and Android smartphones).
Content will be based on XHTML5 and capable of creating ePUB3 files
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.
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
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Jane Stanhope
1-617-671-3457