 Education has faced many challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with both students and teachers finding it difficult to access crucial course materials. Through their digital solutions, EdTech specialist VitalSource Technologies enabled learning to continue with minimal disruption, resulting in a productive and engaging learning experience. With the transition to online learning in the wake of COVID, VitalSource reacted quickly to the urgent need to help educational institutions I think our expertise and our experience over the past 20 years has put us in the position to really be able to help institutions pivot very quickly into either an initial digital adoption or all the way through to giving them a more enhanced courseware development. Not only are students able to access material from publishers through bookshelf by VitalSource, they can also tailor them to their own requirements. Students can go in there and make their own highlights, make their own notes. They can also have additional functionality like read aloud, so they can learn and listen to their content no matter where they are, both online and offline. It was the perfect solution for Kaplan International Pathways, which works exclusively with students from abroad. Kaplan Open Learning, part of Kaplan International, had already been working with VitalSource for eight years. Kaplan International Pathways were able to take advantage of that relationship. Very clear option was VitalSource because it means how students could access their textbooks from wherever they were in the world through our own VLE system. It's not just about ebook provision. Cutting edge analytical tools mean that teachers can track engagement with courses and see who might be struggling. I can access analytics through VitalSource that I can't do with a print textbook, that tell me how many of my students have looked at the book today, how many of them have actually spent more than a minute looking at the assignment that I gave them. I can see how much students are engaging with the book, which means I can recognize very quickly and early on who's not reading, who might need a little bit more support. ebook support the students as well as the lecturers. Just things like making notes, being able to record your thoughts on ebooks, you know, instead of having to remember and write down everything, you could just make a marking on exactly where you need, like where you need that information later and then being able to come back, be able to stop and start. But when it comes to research and all these other stuff, it's just the best, it's just the best. You know, the internet is connected, it's everywhere. You can find things you need. With more than 6,000 students, 10 colleges and 15 university partners, when the pandemic began, Kaplan International Pathways and VitalSource had to work hard to quickly integrate several hundred e-text books to ensure flexibility and consistency for both pupils and lecturers. We just stayed engaged with them during the course of the summer, narrowing down the books we needed, ensuring we had the permissions, which takes a lot of work and we had a lot of support to do that. And then staff and student training to make sure that everybody was comfortable with using the books. Lecturers discovered they could share resources with students in new ways. There already are certain advantages to using the e-books, which they just didn't have with the print books. They're more easily able to integrate them into the courses. They're able to share notes with the students and direct the students' attention to particular passages. Having worked with VitalSource since 2013, Kaplan Open Learning have long reaped the benefits of working with e-books. We were able to use some of the additional tools that e-books offer and then try and measure whether that intervention made a difference to the student experience or not. They found that with teachers able to directly annotate e-books, explaining context and relevance, student engagement improved. We wanted to see students engage with content at the right point within a module and we were able to monitor that through the analytics that the e-book platform gave us. With 16 million students accessing nearly 2 million titles online every year, VitalSource's multiple offer means it's ready for education to become more tailored to the individual. I think AI will start playing a bigger role. So we'll start looking more at personalized learning and being able to meet those individual needs as well as the en masse delivery of easy access for students. And I think it is all around just maintaining that engaging environment for students to be able to learn in.