MBA students across all intakes will now be provided with digital textbooks, an initiative which ties in with the University of Strathclyde's strategic aims as a leading international technological university.
The MBA team supplied digital textbooks to Glasgow-based MBA students, on the full time, part time and flexible learning routes as a pilot scheme for the academic year 2016/17.
Following this successful trial, the MBA unit is now rolling out nine core digital textbooks to all new intakes, including students at the Business Schools eight international centres.
Findlay Black, MBA Operations Manager, said, "We're looking forward to taking this forward and opening it up to all our students across all routes and centres. Students will be able to access the textbooks on all their digital devices and it's on our MyPlace app. What's more, students have access to the digital texts for life.
"This way of offering textbooks also allows students to convert text to audio, allowing them to listen to the textbooks and offering another way for the student to interact with the material."
Lorna McNally, Librarian for the Business School, said, "The pilot was awarded to Kortext, a digital textbook platform provider. Students can access the digital textbooks on up to five different devices and can download the digital textbook to read offline.
"We are also able to use Kortext to provide MBA Handbooks and workbooks digitally, which saves expense in printing and distribution,
"The MBA digital textbook pilot is the first time that we've purchased digital textbooks from a provider such as Kortext who works with many publishers to provide a single interface/platform for many textbooks. The benefits of using a single platform like Kortext is that students don't have to login to various different publisher's sites to get their e-books. With Kortext all nine digital textbooks are on one platform.
"Because a lot of MBA students, particularly those from the part-time and flexible learning cohorts are often working and travelling, the digital texts are portable and accessible without having to carry heavy textbooks. And students will still be able to access the digital textbooks after graduation as well."