Tips by Tony

Yesterday, Apple introduced two products aimed at the Education market: iBooks Author and iBooks 2, an updated version of iBooks that allows for interactive textbooks. Much has been written (already) about iBooks Author, but there seems to be some confusion about what it is and what it’s for.

We hear a lot these days about digital textbooks, but most examples I’ve seen are nothing more than digitized versions of the printed copy. While electronic versions of textbooks make your backpack much lighter, and provide the ability to search, what’s really needed is a complete re-thinking of how the content is provided. A new company named Inkling is taking the first step.

Here are just a few of the articles I found interesting over the past several weeks: