1. Blockchain Solutions for Book Publishing
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Jeanette Castle, Alison Baverstock, Alison Clark, Tanuja Shelar, Kelly Squires, Jackie Steinitz, Nazira Karodia, Maya Hutchinson, Natia Sopromadze, R. Jefferies, Sara Crowley, Sara Smith, Clare Carney, Rebecca Holderness, and Rebecca Butler
- Subjects
Shared reading ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Higher education ,business.industry ,Social connectedness ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Library science ,Student engagement ,Library and Information Sciences ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Media Technology ,Institution ,Sociology ,History of the book ,business ,media_common - Abstract
This paper outlines the experience of four universities that collaborated on a pre-arrival shared reading project, the Big Read, in 2018/2019. They did so primarily to promote student engagement and retention and also to ease the transition into higher education, particularly for first-generation students, to promote staff connectedness, and to provide a USP (unique selling point) for their institution. The paper covers all the associated processes, from isolating the respective aims of the collaborators to the choosing and sharing of a single agreed title. In analysing the outcomes, recommendations are made for future cross-institutional projects of this kind.
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- 2020