T39 KSET: iBooks Author: Potential, Pedagogical Meanings, and Implementation Challenges

• In Event: Roundtables - Thursday
  In Roundtable Session: Roundtables I - KSET

Short Description

This session discusses Apple’s iBooks Author, an application intended for textbook writers and publishers to create e-textbooks. This session 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 session includes lessons learned from the leading countries in implementing e-textbooks in the classroom, such as South Korea and Malaysia.

Author

• Jackie HeeYoung Kim, Armstrong Atlantic State University