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K-12 Electronic Textbooks K-12 Electronic Textbooks iBooks Textbooks Other Formats such as APPS eTextbooks Kno eTextbooks (there Apple and Android Online Editions are many others) General A digital replica of the An interactive eText Kno eTextbooks are Versions of student Interactive, online edition Overview Print student edition format of the student Student Editions editions in eTextbook of a full program that edition announced by enhanced with interactive format along with direct INCLUDES an online • Reflow text and images Apple in January 2012. features and social instruction, ongoing version of the student to provide the best fit for iBooks Textbooks can sharing tools that meet support, assessment, edition textbook accessed the device’s screen size ONLY be viewed via today's connected and intervention— via a “book pages” tab (although this is not Apple’s iBooks app on an students wherever they enabling teachers to plus other things like always true for products iPad, iPhone, or iPod and are ready to learn personalize instruction for teacher edition and in the .pdf file format) can ONLY be purchased each student. ancillary items. • Support features built via Apple’s iBookstore at into eReader and tablet this time. The textbook pages are devices static and do not have interactive elements built into them, although there The file is loaded onto a are interactive elements, mobile tablet or eReader such as video, and device, such as the Apple quizzes, available to the iPad, Samsung Galaxy user as part of the entire Tab, or Barnes & Noble online edition set of Nook. It can also be resources. loaded onto a laptop or desktop computer. Portable, easily-accessed, but with limited interactivity. Features/Func eTextbooks include all of Multi-Touch™ textbooks Include the same Assessments may be Tab navigation: tionality the content of the print for iPad content as the print integrated, with The online eTextbook is textbook. offer rich, magazine-style student edition, with results going accessed via the “Book Depending on device, design plus embedded extra layers of immediately to the Pages” tab and allows the additional elements interactive features to interactivity added. teacher who can user to read the eText include interactive Table maximize learning Students can differentiate online within their of Contents, zoom & engagement. highlight, underline, instruction. browser. The eText does resize, scroll, text search, and take notes in the Videos may be not have any interactivity K-12 Electronic Textbooks keyword web search, Interactive features can text, which are also embedded as well as built into it. Users can bookmark, notes, and include: transmitted to a Modeling and access interactive content dictionary look-up. student journal. Graphing tools via other tabs separate Embedded videos Glossary, smartlinks, Scroll, note-taking, from the eText itself, e.g., and videos can be highlighting eActivities: References: Image galleries accessed at the point Student Resources, etc. Multimedia of learning. including Students can share Online SE: Contains entire interactive features their personalized Student edition, all Lesson and time lines, eTextbook with Tutorial Videos, all audio summaries, classmates workbooks and practice 3-D graphics, and Kno Me analytics activities. NOTE: Videos interactive maps allow students to see require Flash. Text highlighting, data about how much Online TE: PDF of the Teacher Edition, all note-taking, and time they spend studying, and even teaching resources as well bookmarking more importantly to as all student resources. Interactive quizzes set their own learning Built-in search for goals. any word or phrase Is it designed Yes Yes Yes Yes No, although depending for use on a on the program, some Mobile elements of Online Device? Editions may be downloaded for use on some mobile devices. Is online Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes access needed to INSTALL the content? Is online No No, however certain No, although some No Yes, although some access needed special features, such as interactive functionality programs allow for pdfs of to USE the streaming video, would will only occur while sections or lessons to be content? require you to be online online. downloaded and read to view. while offline. K-12 Electronic Textbooks Examples of WINDOWS OS: iBooks 2.0 or later on an Windows 7 Apple iOS 4.3, 5.x & 6.0 WINDOWS OS: Operating Windows XP SP2, iPad. iOS 5.0 or later is Windows 8 Windows XP SP2, Android OS 3.1., 3.2 and systems Vista SP1, Windows 7 required. Apple iOS 5.0 or later Vista SP1, Windows 7 (32-bit), or Windows Android OS 4.1 and 4.x (32-bit), or Windows (this is not an 7 (64-bit); Browsers 7 (64-bit); Browsers up, Jellybean exhaustive list IE7.x, 8.x, 9.0, Operating System IE7.x, 8.x, 9.0, as Chrome, Firefox 3.x, Chrome, Firefox 3.x, requirements 4.x, 5.x 4.x, 5.x vary by MAC OS: Mac OS MAC OS: Mac OS company, 10.5x, 10.6.x, 10.7x, 10.5x, 10.6.x, 10.7x, product and Browsers Safari 4.x, Browsers Safari 4.x, device) 5.x, Chrome, Firefox 5.x, Chrome, Firefox 3.x, 4.x, 5.x 3.x, 4.x, 5.x ANDROID OS 3.x or ANDROID OS 3.x or higher higher APPLE iOS 5.x APPLE iOS 5.x Which devices iPad, iPad Mini, Samsung iPad and iPad Mini ONLY iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, The full capacity of an can this be Galaxy Tab, Nook, and most Android based iPod Touch, Samsung, Online Edition is generally viewed on? NookColor, most laptop tablets, WIN 8 tablets and other best accessed through and desktop computers. most laptop and desktop desktop, laptop, or (may vary by computers via browser netbook computers. company and Online Editions have not product) historically been designed to be viewed through a mobile device (eReader or Tablet). Downloadable Downloadable . Online editions are eTextbooks eTextbooks generally usually a richer vs. Online focus on the student interactive experience eTextbooks edition only. They may be and generally hosted less interactive and on a server. They are require a file or app to be generally delivered downloaded to a device. These files may be timed through a subscription OR may be an application for a period of time. that cannot be Updates occur in real transferred but never time. Some may have K-12 Electronic Textbooks expires. Updates occur downloadable through additional elements but are downloads. Usually designed to be used function best on a tablet. online and function most ideally on a desktop or laptop computer. Please note that publishers are walking the line between developing quality content that works on different devices and operating systems and not being beholden to one particular hardware provider. There are no real industry standards so the ability to guarantee that all content will work on all devices or platforms is difficult. While digital content eliminates the cost of printing physical books, it does not eliminate development costs such as research, hiring authors, art, photography, illustrations, fact checking and adherence to curriculum and pedagogical standards. New processes and systems to protect Digital Rights Management are also necessary as well as tools to manage royalty payments etc. K-12 Digital Textbook Market (source internet@school magazine) o 2010- Digital textbooks accounted for approximately 1% of the US textbook market o 2012- 5.5% o 2013- 10.5% estimated o 2014- 18.8% estimated .
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