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Elsevier Launches Next-Generation Digital Learning Platform to Provide Health Professions Students 24/7 Access to eContent and Advanced Collaboration Tools

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 News on IT in Healthcare
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PHILADELPHIA, January 26

- Designed for the Way Health Professions Students Learn, Pageburst GoesBeyond Typical E-Book Platforms by Adding Integrated Multimedia,Text-To-Speech, an Instructor Grade Book and Other Features
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Elsevier, (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home) theleading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, todayannounced the launch of Pageburst(TM) (http://www.pageburst.com), aninteractive digital learning platform for Elsevier health science educationcontent. Pageburst surpasses existing e-Book platforms because it is designedfor the way students learn, with features such as integrated multimedia,text-to-speech, social networking tools and an integrated instructor gradebook. The Pageburst platform is designed specifically for nursing and healthprofessions students in North America who require anytime/anywhere access tocourse material and utilize texts as reference guides throughout theircareers.
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"With Pageburst, we can unlock higher levels of performance by engagingstudents with interactive and immersive course materials in a variety offormats," said John King, Ed.D., Senior Vice President and Chief AcademicOfficer at Lincoln Educational Services. "Students can now spend class andexam prep times more efficiently and easily organize course materials tomatch their program's curriculum with integrated searchable content from arobust collection of the most current Elsevier titles."

Pageburst is built upon easy-to-use and recognizable software tools thatallow painless implementation and support for health science educators,students and practitioners seeking superior teaching, learning and clinicaloutcomes. The platform enables users to master course content quickly andeasily by working with their entire collection of Elsevier health sciencetitles in text, video and audio formats and by collaborating online withfaculty and classmates within the context of the content.

"Moving from print to digital will improve engagement, increase learningand enhance the value of the content to help students succeed throughouttheir careers as health professionals," said Sally Schrefer, ManagingDirector, Nursing and Health Professions, Elsevier Health Sciences. "Welistened to our customers and created a breakthrough solution that meetstheir unique education needs and surpasses their expectations of what digitaltextbook platforms can deliver."

Designed for How Today's Students Learn and Study

Accessible offline or online through Elsevier's market-leading Evolveportal, Pageburst is Elsevier's new platform for accessing a much wider arrayof features and functionality for its digital textbooks. Pageburst is easyfor faculty and students to access and use and is delivered through thedevice most college students already have - a computer.

Elsevier's community of health education experts designed Pageburst toenhance the way health professions students think, learn, and study. Forexample, students will be able to create personalized study guides andinstantly link content within the text to expert definitions and descriptionsin dictionaries and other Elsevier reference works. They will also be able toview a video or animation within the context of applicable textbook contentto help clarify complex concepts. Additionally, students can increaseretention and easily learn terms that look alike, sound alike or are hard topronounce by clicking a button to hear the correct pronunciation and meaning.

Fully integrated collaboration tools within Pageburst will help studentsgain and share knowledge through personal learning networks that connectstudents, instructors, and user groups directly from within the content. Bothstudents and instructors can embed notes and links directly into textbookcontent. Additional features include interactive quizzes and activities thatcan be submitted to an instructor's virtual grade book.

Pageburst is web-based, so it can be accessed anytime, on any device witha supported web browser. Students can also download their content to theirdesktop or laptop computers to study offline. Unlike other e-Book platforms,Pageburst is at one time: (1) interactive, (2) with book content availableboth on-and-offline that (3) will be available to the student over the courseof their lives after a single purchase. Students can also download an iTunesapplication that syncs highlighted material along with accompanying noteswith their iPhone or iPod Touch, enabling quick, anytime access to theinformation they need most.

Student to Save Money by Using Pageburst vs. Print Textbooks

Unlike the average undergraduate student seeking deeply discountedcontent for one semester, health professions students are more likely toretain their textbooks for future classes and to reference in professionalpractice. Still, Pageburst users will save up to 20 percent off the printprice on each title, plus benefit from the suite of electronic enhancements.The nation's approximate 1.2 million nursing and health professions studentsoften purchase several books per semester, and on average more than half ofthose books are Elsevier titles. With the digital textbooks on Pageburst,that means students can not only save substantial dollars, but also benefitby cross-referencing multiple books on one integrated platform. Titlespurchased on Pageburst do not expire; they can be downloaded to a user's harddrive and accessed indefinitely.

More than 550 of Elsevier's most-used book titles are available on theplatform, including Potter's Fundamentals of Nursing, Chabner's Language ofMedicine, and Lewis's Medical Surgical Nursing.

ABOUT ELSEVIER

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical andmedical information products and services. The company works in partnershipwith the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000journals, including The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com) and Cell(http://www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including majorreference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions includeScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (http://www.scopus.com),Reaxys (http://www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com) andNursing Consult (http://www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance theproductivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite(http://www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (http://www.medai.com),which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes morecost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier(http://www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is partof Reed Elsevier Group PLC (http://www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leadingpublisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed ElsevierPLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam),REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).Tom Reller, Vice President, Global Corporate Relations +1-215-239-3508 [email protected]

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