In this episode of the Today’s Campus Innovation Interview Series, Kirsten Winkler talks with Scott Hasbrouck, co-founder and CEO of Ginkgotree.
Ginkgotree is a web application that enables professors to create digital coursepacks (textbooks) based on free web content like YouTube videos, open educational resources or other creative commons licensed material and merge it with copyright cleared content from journals, magazines or textbooks in order to offer students custom course materials.
Ginkgotree is also offering a free book scanning service for professors. They simply choose the pages of the textbook they would like to include into the coursepack and then send the books or journals to Ginkgotree where they are professionally scanned and digitized.
This way Ginkgotree is able to cut down the cost of a textbook to about $30 instead of the usual $200 per semester. Ginkgotree partnered with the Copyright Clearance Center to offer the largest choice of copyright cleared content possible.
