· When the textbooks are available in electronic form, students can “carry” all of their books with them on a single Tablet PC/ mac tablet.
· Interactive textbook content management systems are being developed that make it easier to have physical access to the texts and allow students to create, organize, share, and archive personalized markups, and to review sheets and notes. One example is the e-Text project, an electronic textbook used in the Introductory Computer Science class at Hope College (Ryan McFall, Hope College).
· In addition, transforming physical textbooks into electronic resources—with highlighted sections, sticky notes, Web pages, and hyperlinks—will enable more efficient sharing of resources. The Adaptive Book Project is one example of this (Ananda Gunawardena, CMU). It may become feasible for a student to use the Tablet PC to drag text and images from a book, annotate, save, and then share them with other students. Furthermore, handwritten annotations could be tied to specific markups in the text.
Isn’t this exciting!
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