ETEC 522- DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS
EFFECTIVE Features of
1) ACCESS FOR ALL STUDENTS
- Easy and free on-line access to e-resources (e.g. registration to educational platforms and open source textbooks as well as databases with scientific articles)
- Digital textbooks include features to nurture different tasks, ages, and socio-economic-ergonomic needs, including students of all abilities (e.g. speech to text). Structure of Digital Textbook by Railean, Elena
VIDEO EXAMPLE: “Accessible Digital Textbook”
2) COLLABORATIVE LEARNING TOOLS
- Students can share notes with peers and teacher seamlessly and digital textbooks can have a positive effect on application in collaborative learning situations. Digital textbook application for collaborative learning by Hocheol Shin; Minjung Kim; Kwangsu Cho
3) USER-Friendly Learning Tools
- Elements for switching between pages are necessary along with the table of contents, index, glossary and search tools.
- Images, especially three-dimensional lifelike drawings, videos and animations.
- Interactive features include page scroll, annotations, bookmarks, highlights, etc. so students do not need supplementary material to understand the text
- Familiar, student-friendly front page, back page and bookplate
4) Educator FEATURES
- Digital textbooks such as DynamicBooks allow professors the power to reorder chapters, insert extra reading, delete irrelevant passages, rewrite individual sentences, and scribble in the margins
- Digital textbooks such as DynamicBooks allow profs to simply streamline their existing syllabus into a single digital file–essentially, allowing them to do what they already do, and better.