VitalSource and Hypothesis Partner to Expand Social Learning
We are excited to announce that VitalSource is partnering with Hypothesis to bring social annotation to over 16 million students reading course materials from more than 1,000 publishers.
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We are excited to announce that VitalSource is partnering with Hypothesis to bring social annotation to over 16 million students reading course materials from more than 1,000 publishers.
Good news for our Canadian partners: We now offer Hypothesis hosting in Canada. Find out what this means for Canadian data now, and how it could benefit other countries in the future.
Enjoy quick video clips from Liquid Margins 24, “Hybrid, Hyflex, F2F,” for using visual annotations, teaching accessibility in annotations, and sustaining living, breathing documents.
Get practical tips for teaching with social annotation — in any topic — distilled direct from Liquid Margins 26: “Bodies of Knowledge: Teaching Health Professions With Social Annotation.”
We’ve reached two million annotated documents! Catch conversations on Vannevar Bush, magic dirt, dark academia, 1968 in pictures, bell hooks, Langston Hughes, evolutionary bio, and more.
Hypothesis has passed another inclusivity milepost: Our social annotation tool now meets rigorous level WCAG 2.1 AA compliance when used in a learning management system (LMS).
Amanda Licastro talks about how she uses social annotation in a wide variety of different classes and assignments to build classroom community, digital literacies, and scholarly practice with her students.
Instructors using Blackboard Learn can now assign Hypothesis-powered readings using Learn’s built-in Groups feature, enabling learners to annotate together with fully customizable group settings that fit any course configuration.
Ultimately, it’s students who benefit most when they seed the margins of assigned readings with comments, questions, answers, links, memes, GIFs, emojis, and more. So what do students consider the advantages of reading with social annotation?
Chris Shaw joins our product team, where he’ll coordinate how to augment Hypothesis to move social annotation forward. Learn about Chris’s career arc, why he’s excited about Hypothesis, and his takes on bots, community building, huskies, and more.