likes of Ubicast too , utilising their specialised video solutions for education directly inside our LMS . It ’ s very important to have a good mix between all these different partners ,” he explains .
How digitisation is evolving books In a community that still cherishes physical books , there is an ongoing transition between digital textbooks , interactive video , and collaboration inside books , such as the capacity of students to annotate themselves and share the annotations with other students , and the capacity as well for teachers to assign activities to students in parts of the book .
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“ We enhance the experience of the learner , so they ’ re not just watching video , but interacting with it . And , with digital textbooks , technology gives students the ability to print certain sections or articles quickly and easily ,” says Berthet .
It ’ s also a question of devices the students use and adjusting the reading experience to tablets rather than desktop , for instance .
Auzanneau adds : “ We offer a printing service that the students and faculty still use very widely . Before the pandemic , we were printing about 10 million pages of A4 . And now halfway through the year , we are at 5 million . So it ' s still very important .”
“ We need a combination between going digital and having the possibility to use paper
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