March 4, 2010

Proposals in response to CUNY's eBooks RFP due March 29

Program and Presenters

• The CUNY eTextbook Initiative & RFP
  Manfred Kuechler (Provost Office)

• Coursesmart
  Probably the most comprehensive collection of textbooks from the leading publishers in "page true" format
  Manfred Kuechler (Sociology)

• WileyPlus
  As the name implies, a textbook plus additional online resources
  Roger Persell (Biology)

• ebrary and other eTextbooks
  Electronic (text)books available at the Hunter library
  Danise Hoover and Sarah Ward (Library)

• ALEKS (McGraw Hill partnerhsip)
  Online AI (artificial intelligence) based assessment and learning system to accompany specific courses
  Fatma Cebenoyan (Accounting)

• APLIA
  Interactive homework assignments and automatic grading, some based on specific textbooks
  Partha Deb (Economics)

• CourseCompass  (Pearson)
  Automatic generation of Bb course site complete with full textbook and lab options in electronic format
  Robert Thompson (Mathematics)

Additional Resources

• CUNY brochure on how to save on textbook costs