As e-book technologies evolve, they will offer new ways of interacting with massively shared, adaptive and dynamic books. Teachers will be able to write alternative versions of text, embed graphs and simulations showing live data, add summarization, and use tools such as timers and calculators to support structured learning and formative assessment. Students will be able to share annotations or contact other people reading the same page of a book. New forms of learning with e-books could include crowd authoring (where textbooks are produced by students, for students), embedded tutoring (where readers offer to explain or discuss a difficult passage), or co-reading (where readers are automatically put in contact with others currently reading the same page).
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The bit about “Teachers will be able to write alternative versions of text, embed graphs and simulations showing live data, add summarization, and use tools such as timers and calculators to support structured learning and formative assessment.” seems a bit steep – that’s an awful lot of skill required to create something so complex. Is the suggestion that interfaces will become so simple that previously complex tasks will become easy, or more that digital literacies will increase so dramatically that again complex tasks become easy? As someone who’s been designing complex multimodal learning tools for some time, including doing things like using live data and timing triggers, I find it pretty challenging even with powerful tools.
You’re right that it’s too much to suggest teachers will create full interactive texts. But, some teachers already produce lesson plans with embedded media (e.g. for showing on an interactive whiteboard in class). Some are starting to make these available for students to access on laptops or tablets. In the future, it should be easier (with HTML5) to add e.g. a live data stream, or an interactive graph, to a student handout or lesson plan – in a similar way to adding a photo, video or chart to PowerPoint.
THUZE – a collaborative leanring environment for personalising and sharing e-textbooks: https://thuzelearning.com/