Apple’s iBooks Author: Potential, Pedagogical Meanings, and Implementation Challenges
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2014
Publication Title
Transforming K-12 Classrooms with Digital Technology
DOI
10.4018/978-1-4666-4538-7.ch007
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.
Recommended Citation
Hee-Young Kim, Jackie.
2014.
"Apple’s iBooks Author: Potential, Pedagogical Meanings, and Implementation Challenges."
Transforming K-12 Classrooms with Digital Technology, H. H. Yang, Z. Yang, D. Wu, & S. Liu (Ed.) Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4538-7.ch007
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/leadership-facpubs/233
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