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A new wave of e-textbooks is giving students more than just words and a few hotlinks on a digital page. Publishers over the last few years have been adding video, interactive maps and gamified quizzes designed to engage students more deeply in their learning. Via Nik Peachey 
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Active Textbook is an interesting service that you can use to turn your PDFs into multimedia documents. The basic idea behind the service is that you can upload PDFs and add pictures, links, and videos that are displayed when students read your PDF through the Active Textbook viewer. While reading your PDF through Active Textbook students can highlight, draw, and add comments to the document. Via Cyndi Danner-Kuhn
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Are students using e-textbooks and do they actually make a difference? These 10 surprising facts might, well, surprise you!
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An academy in Bolton is pushing the boundaries of education by putting away pens and paper and giving all pupils and teachers their own iPad.
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Nik Peachey: Significant changes over the last couple of years though have led me to believe that now is the time to look at a new model of ELT publishing, at least for the realm of teacher development books.
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"“The best thing to invest in if you want to improve the use of technology in a school is connectivity and teacher training.”"
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Teachers nationwide are experimenting with new educational technologies. From iPads in schools to e-textbooks, technology is making it possible for teachers to to reinvent their profession. One of the most intriguing ways in which technology is entering the classroom is called “flipping.” The idea is simple: Using technology, teachers make students watch lecture videos and read course materials at home online and then class time is spent working on actual problems with other students and with the teacher, who, instead of lecturing from the front of the room can float between groups and actually spend one-on-one time with pupils.
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Boundless, the free alternative to textbooks, releases its content under Creative Commons, thus making education more affordable, accessible, and effective for students and teachers.
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A transformation which is not a revolution. It will take time and effort. It's important we give it the space to take its natural course.
Thank you Nik. I like reading about innovations like e-textbook transformation that make learning more accessible to all students.
To engage students more deeply in their learning publishers are making the textbook a hands-on activity by adding video, interactive maps and gamified quizzes. The goal is not simply to replace traditional textbooks with e-books but to fundamentally change teaching and learning .The best learning strategy is the multi-modal approach—you can hear it, you can see it, you can manipulate and interact with the content.