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1EdTech Consortium Announces Participation in EDUPUB Europe 2014

1EdTech Consortium Announces Participation in EDUPUB Europe 2014


EDUPUB Europe 2014 will continue work to  establish a globally interoperable, accessible, open ecosystem for e-Textbooks and other digital learning materials

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Lake Mary, Florida, USA – 19 March 2014 – The 1EdTech Consortium, the world’s leading educational technology standards setting collaborative, today announces its sponsorship and participation in the EDUPUB Europe 2014 workshop which will take place in Oslo, Norway, 19 June 2014.   The meeting will provide an update on current progress of the EDUPUB initiative to advance the effective adoption and use of e-textbooks and other digital learning materials by improving interoperability, accessibility, and baseline capabilities via broad adoption of enabling technical standards. 


1EdTech hosted the previous EDUPUB2 workshop in February 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah.  EDUPUB is an alliance of trade and standards organizations and other stakeholders working to establish a globally interoperable, accessible, open ecosystem for e-Textbooks and other Digital Learning Materials via EPUB 3, Educational Sector Standards and the Open Web Platform.

An international steering committee sets the workshop’s agenda and guides the technical work. Committee participants include 1EdTech, IDPF and W3C .  The complete steering committee can be found at: /edupub/committees.html


The workshop is hosted by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC36 and Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences / LACE project. The workshop agenda and registration details for the workshop are available at: http://idpf.org/edupub-europe-2014

Other upcoming EDUPUB related events will include 1EdTech Learning Impact Leadership Institute, (May 5-8 in New Orleans, LA) which will feature an EDUPUB update panel and the IDPF Digital Book conference at BookExpo America, (May 28-29 in New York City, NY) which will have several EDUPUB sessions in its Education track.


About 1EdTech Consortium (1EdTech)
1EdTech is a nonprofit organization that advances technology that can affordably scale and improve educational participation and attainment. 1EdTech members are leading suppliers, institutions and government organizations that are enabling the future of education by collaborating on interoperability and adoption initiatives. 1EdTech sponsors Learning Impact: A global awards program & conference to recognize the impact of innovative technology on educational access, affordability, and quality. For more information visit imsglobal.org