The iPad in Education
Today Apple announced a new initiative for textbooks on the iPad. If successful, this could transform the textbook publishing industry and radically improve the way classroom materials are developed, published and used in schools around the world—a classic example of disruptive technology. They are proposing that high school textbooks be sold through the App Store for $15 or less.
Apple also introduced a new free application—iBooks Author—for creating this content and publishing it to the iBooks Store for distribution, so the tools are there to start making this happen now. You can download it from the Mac App Store here.
There’s a 7-minute overview of the whole thing here, and the longer keynote presentation video can be seen here.
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