July 29th 2009 - Top ten reasons to go digital but stay local

Author: Craig Schoen

Going Digital and staying local is the term we use to explain how to provide custom digital course ware to your students, while ensuring a simple and consistent way to pick up and pay for the content at the book store or the print center. The top ten reasons to go digital and stay local:

1) Easy to price, distribute and collect payment for course packs.

2) Ensures schools are in control of their knowledge assets by having their own distribution system that produces digital hard copies.

3) Lower your cost on consumables like paper and toner.

4) Reduce maintenance and fixed costs associated with printing machines.

5) Build a library of school course ware that can be reused by other courses.

6) Reduces the inventory space required to run a course pack operation.

7) Easier partnership between book store and print centre, deliveries and restocks not required.

8) Students benefit from the advantages of digital course ware, while maintaining the same level of service offered by the print centre and book store.

9) Easier to adopt than a pure Internet solution that requires the sale and management of passwords and online content.

10) Students can have their course packs with them on usb drives and access them with any computer without an Internet connection required.



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