Interoperability.

Access.

Accessibility.

We believe people learn better when they are learning together. Digital content and technologies are opening up new opportunities for social learning, but students and teachers need tools that work the same no matter where they are, not different tools for different platforms. This coalition of content platforms, publishers, tool providers, schools, and other stakeholders are working towards a vision where social learning can take place anywhere in the same way regardless of technology or vendor.

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In the Words of Our Members

Dan Whaley Founder & CEO, Hypothesis

Chris Sackett VP of Academic Solutions, Barnes & Noble Education

George Moore CTO, Cengage

Jessie Ransom Teaching & Learning Product Specialist, Clarivate/ExLibris

Stephen Rhind-Tutt President, Coherent Digital

Richard Sever Co-Founder bioRxiv and medRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laborator

George Kerscher Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium

Marc Boutet CEO, De Marque

Donna Shaw Director of Product Management, EBSCO

Eric Hellman President, Free Ebook Foundation

Melissa Fulkerson Vice President of Research Reference, Elsevier

Raja Kushalnagar Professor and Director, Information Technology Program, Gallaudet University

Mike Furlough Executive Director, HathiTrust

Mark Graham Director of The Wayback Machine, Internet Archive

Alex Humphreys Director, JSTOR Labs, JSTOR

Delmar Larsen CEO, LibreTexts

Wilson Tsu Founder, PowerNotes

Hugh McGuire Founder/Executive Director, Pressbooks/Rebus Foundation

Wendy Queen President, Project Muse

Arianna Becerril-Garcia Director of Innovation and Technology at Redalyc, UAEM, Redalyc

Paul Schacht Professor of English, SUNY Geneseo Center for Digital Learning

Katie Lynch Assoc. Professor of English and Chair of Honors Program, SUNY, Rockland Community College

Christopher Heritage eBook Product Owner, Taylor & Francis

Peter Brantley Director of Online Strategy, UC Davis Library

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction & Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Etienne Pelaprat CTO, Unizin

Mike Hale VP Education, VitalSource

Karl Bakeman Chief Product Officer, W. W. Norton & Company

Highlights

View a compilation of highlights drawn from all our member videos.

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Interoperability is fundamental to many of the most iconic technologies we rely on every day. Think of the web, the telephone, bluetooth, USB, credit cards, and many other everyday systems. Each is based on standards that enable interoperability, so that basic functions are guaranteed between implementations.

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The more we break down barriers to content and how it's used, the more we increase access to that content. In the same way, the more that key technologies can be used over all content, the more we increase access to those technologies.

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Interoperability shouldn’t be at the cost of accessibility. We want to ensure that accessibility is an equal and early requirement as social learning comes to platforms at scale