Future+of+Online+Learning

The Future of Online Learning



The informational videos, articles, and online tools listed below provide an overview of what is currently available and "what's coming" in digital textbooks and online learning.

[|Inkling Textbooks]
 * Inkling brings the world’s best content to iPad with interactivity, social collaboration and simple ease-of-use. No more heavy, expensive textbooks to carry around campus. Inkling textbooks are more interactive, more flexible and cheaper.
 * Cost: Free

[|"Our Choice” Online Textbook]
 * Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad -- with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is a sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore.
 * Preview the video by clicking on the hyperlink above.

[|Kno Textbooks]
 * Kno Textbook are currently geared toward college students however the videos and information on the webpage show how simple students are able to download textbooks to their iPad and use helpful features to complete assigned readings.
 * Cost: Varies

[|Intelligent Papers]
 * Online math and science textbooks that are currently being used in six California school districts as part of a pilot project for online texbooks.
 * Cost: $150.00
 * [|Edweek Video of Student Experience]

[|VitalSource]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino','serif'; font-size: 17.3333px;">Digital textbooks and educational materials in the following subject areas: psychology, geography, financial accounting, physics, and select language arts materials.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino','serif'; font-size: 20px;">[|FlexBooks]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino','serif'; font-size: 17.3333px;">FlexBooks are customizable textbooks that you can use online or as printed books. You can share FlexBooks, and you can customize them. We provide high-quality online materials that are aligned with national and California textbook standards, and -- because FlexBooks are online -- we can keep them up to date much more easily than printed textbooks. You can use the books just as we provide them, or use only parts of them, or add you own materials or material from the web
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino','serif'; font-size: 17.3333px;">Cost: Online materials are free.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino','serif'; font-size: 17.3333px;">Cost of printed materials are assessed by printing company.