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Kortext inks deals with four more universities
Kortext is bolstering its sales force in response to "significant growth" after signing up four UK universities to its digital learning platform.
It struck deals with the University of Leeds, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Worcester and the University of Strathclyde, enabling each univiersity's students to access thousands of e-textbooks as well as to collaborate in groups online.
The new business deals comes at the same time as Kortext was appointed to the NICE Electronic and Print Content Framework Agreement, meaning it can also supply medical and healthcare related e-books to the NHS and other eligible healthcare organsisations.
As a result of this growth, it says, it is appointing education specialists Nigel Ashworth and Glenn Thomas as regional sales managers. They will lead on working with university leaders to implement Kortext, providing ongoing support with training staff and students on the learning platform.
Kortext works in partnership with more than 40 UK universities, offering access to over 350,000 digital textbooks from more than 650 academic publishers, online or offline on any device. It provides an analytics dashboard for universities, too, to monitor course engagement and progress and identify learning trends.
Andy Alferovs, managing director of Kortext, said: "After...seeing the size of the team double over the past three years, we're really excited to continue working in partnership with some of the most prestigious universities and institutions in the country.
"Establishing these key partnerships offers us a real opportunity to transform education in an innovative way that¹s suited to today's 'digital natives', ensuring that more students than ever have access to the most convenient and cost effective tools for learning."
Pearson revealed registrations for REVEL, its higher education digital product that replaces the printed textbook, also tracking students' time spent on reading assignments, had "almost doubled" its registrations compared to the previous year during its third quarter results. It is now focusing on growing its online program management business (OPM) in the UK, with a deal with King's College London already in place.
