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Structure of Digital Textbook

Structure of Digital Textbook

Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781466683006|ISBN10: 1466683007|EISBN13: 9781466683013
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8300-6.ch004
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Elena Railean. "Structure of Digital Textbook." Psychological and Pedagogical Considerations in Digital Textbook Use and Development, IGI Global, 2015, pp.67-92. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8300-6.ch004

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E. Railean (2015). Structure of Digital Textbook. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8300-6.ch004

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Elena Railean. "Structure of Digital Textbook." In Psychological and Pedagogical Considerations in Digital Textbook Use and Development. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8300-6.ch004

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Abstract

Many projects around the world aim to use and develop digital textbooks. However, differences between aims, affordances, methodologies and technologies cause many issues, controversies and concerns to arise. This chapter aims to explore the basic structure of digital textbooks. The focus is on the non-linear mechanisms of eTextbooks and Open Source Textbooks. At the beginning is investigated the current state-of-art in order to arrange the distinctive features in a hierarchical manner. Then, it assembled the digital textbook infrastructure. The proposed methodology allows identifying the common elementary components of digital textbooks through meta-analyses of proposed methodologies. To arrive at this framework, it explored the diversity of contexts, educational platforms, PC, digital devices, contents and processes. The chapter concludes with a call for future research of digital textbooks functionalities, analysing them in a diversity of four learning environments.

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