Designing of digital text books
- 5. What is a digital textbook?
- 6. A digital textbook is a digital book or e-book intended to serve as the text for a class.
- 7. Advantages to digital textbooks offer lower costs easier to monitor student progress easier and cheaper to update
- 8. offer the opportunity for students to access multimedia content. offer a different or better learning experience. offer better access to quality texts. offer improved access to textbooks for student with disabilities.
- 9. Disadvantages of Digital textbooks the transition to e-textbooks is costly, complex and controversial. Students express a strong preference for printed materials. device access
- 10. • digital literacy • teaching methods
- 11. Behind the Scenes An eBook expert consults with the book’s publisher to determine which interactive digital publishing platform is best suited for the title’s content.
- 12. The four most popular platforms are: • Inkling • iBooks Author • Adobe DPS • Custom HTML5 Solutions & EPUB3
- 13. The publication’s subject matter and content type is an important determinant in selecting the appropriate platform. Each introduces different production considerations.
- 14. Examples of different publication types include: • Medical Practice, Medical Education, Nursing Guides • Science, Health, Social Studies Foreign Language, Arts Novels, Periodicals, Journals, Magazines, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, etc.
- 15. Producing a quality interactive eBook is a detailed process that requires honed methodologies and the collaboration of a team of experts including content architects, instructional and interactive designers, CSS experts, HTML5 experts, and digital testers.
- 16. A Three-Phase Process 1) Editorial and Design Analysis 2) Digital Composition and Development 3) Testing and QA (Quality Assurance)
- 17. Editorial and Design Analysis •begins with the creation of a sample chapter •including a page layout and style guide •what type of interactivities will be employed,
- 18. 2) Digital Composition and Development HTML5 coders build and program all interactive elements based on the storyboards from the Editorial and Design Analysis phase.
- 19. 3) Testing and QA (Quality Assurance) Proofreading of the digital content •ensure that all of the appropriate content was transferred •interactivities incorporated in the right places. •Cross-platform testing is also done