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Apple’s iBooks Author: Potential, Pedagogical Meanings, and Implementation Challenges
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Author(s): Jackie HeeYoung Kim (Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 21
Source title:
Transforming K-12 Classrooms with Digital Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Zongkai Yang (Central China Normal University, P. R. China), Harrison Hao Yang (State University of New York at Oswego, USA & Central China Normal University, P. R. China), Di Wu (Central China Normal University, P. R. China)and Sanya Liu (Central China Normal University, P. R. China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4538-7.ch007
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Abstract
This chapter discusses Apple’s iBooks Author, a brand-new Mac application intended for textbook writers and publishers to create e-textbooks. This chapter provides insight on why IBA holds a prominent place in the field of education and will change our classroom landscape, that is, how we teach and learn. The main purpose of this chapter is to explore IBA’s potential, possible controversial issues, pedagogical meanings, and implementation challenges of using it as a classroom textbook. The chapter includes lessons learned from the leading countries in implementing e-textbooks in the classroom, such as South Korea and Malaysia.
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