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DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS

DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS. Xin Bai Michael B. Smith Wenying Huang- Stolte York College. Concerns and Opportunities. Cost of textbooks -> increasing Web 2.0 -> growth of collective intelligence Environmental concerns –> save trees

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DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS

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  1. DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS XinBai Michael B. Smith Wenying Huang-Stolte York College

  2. Concerns and Opportunities • Cost of textbooks -> increasing • Web 2.0 -> growth of collective intelligence • Environmental concerns –> save trees • Learner needs -> individualized instruction & collaborative learning Develop digital textbooks based upon: • Rich open-access materials • Instructor-developedelearningcontents

  3. Digital Textbooks via Computers • Allows learners to search contents, share notes, and collaborate • Varied formats: • PDF • Image formats (i.e., JPEG, GIF, PNG, or BMP); • Other formats (i.e., AZW(Kindle), MP3, MOBI, EPUB, eReader, BBeB, PRC, AAC) • Lack of standard eBook formats and eBook Readers keeps authors from distributing theirebooksto all eBook devices.

  4. Digital Textbooks via Mobile Devices • Ownership • Mobile learning • A rapidly developing paradigm often defined as learning that takes place with the help of portable electronic tools (Quinn, 2000). • Capacity & Cost • Mobile devices have much of the computing capability and expandable storage capacity of laptops at a fraction of the cost (Dieterle, 2004). • It is a great platform for digital Textbooks!

  5. Computer-based Digital TextBooks

  6. Mobile-based Digital Textbooks

  7. Digital TextBooks in Development

  8. Digital TextBooks across Disciplines

  9. SCORM-complaint eBook Development

  10. Authoring Tools

  11. Students Attitudes (Spring, 2011)

  12. E-Book AC230 Spring 2011 Survey I can learn equally well. I learn better with eBook. I learn better with printed books.

  13. E-Book AC230 Spring 2011 Survey • Strengths of the eBook: • Interactive • Multimedia • Instant feedback from the assessment • Save money • Concerns • Lose where I left off when losing internet connection • Not being able to open videos

  14. Demo • An eBook chapter in AC 230 (hybrid course) • Digital Images • Developed using SoftChalk • Packaged as ScoreCenter or SCORM 2004 • Student quiz scores and time spent in the module are recorded in the Blackboard Grade Center.

  15. Discussions and Future DirectionsThank you!

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