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iBooks Author: Potential, Pedagogical Meanings, and Implementation Challenges

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2014

Publication Title

37th Annual Proceedings of Association for Educational Communications and Technology

Abstract

This article discusses Apple’s iBooks Author, an application intended for textbook writers and publishers to create e-textbooks. This article provides insight on why IBA will change how we teach and learn as well as IBA’s potential, controversial issues, pedagogical meanings, and implementation challenges of using it as a classroom textbook. The article includes lessons learned from the leading countries in implementing e-textbooks in the classroom, such as South Korea and Malaysia.

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