E-Textbooks and Students’ Learning Experiences
As students these days are glued to their smartphones/tablets, they find it convenient to refer to their study materials on their digital devices.
Educational institutes have started incorporating e-textbooks as part of the curriculum to make learning more interactive, engaging and accessible anytime, anywhere on digital devices.
Let’s understand how e-textbooks enhance students’ learning experiences
Inspires Curiosity
E-textbooks provide interconnected learning experiences for students. With embedded links, videos, audio, and infographics, students get the opportunity to explore the subject further through relevant online learning resources on interlinked concepts.
Encourages Collaborative Learning
E-textbooks offer sharing functionalities that enable students to collaborate for their projects by sharing notes, comments, queries etc. Collaboration skills are essential for students to thrive in the future workplace where they will need to work in teams with people from across the globe.
Simplifies Complex Concepts
E-textbooks offer interactive learning using animation, audio-visual representation, and 3D modelling that bring complex concepts to life and make it easy for students to grasp the learning material.
Allows Interactive Homework
With features like Augmented Reality (AR) printable sheets that are embedded with virtual elements, students can point the AR app to the sheet and pull out relevant resources to get access to related information. Hence, with e-textbooks students enjoy doing their homework.
Creates a Culture of Self-Learning
E-textbooks help address the problem of short attention span in students as it contains images, audio, videos and quizzes that keep them engaged in the learning process. It allows students to access the content anytime, anywhere and helps them retain the information better.
Since e-textbooks offer interactive learning, it can enrich the classroom experience and add more value for students.
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