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Writing Electronic Books with Interactive Curricular Material
written by Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian, and Kristen Thompson
With the rise of tablets, such as the iPad, the past few years have seen an increase in the demand for quality electronic textbooks. Unfortunately most of the current offerings do not exploit the accessibility and interactivity that electronic books can deliver. For astronomy and physics electronic textbooks, support for typesetting of equations (MathML) and interactive simulations (JavaScript) are necessary. In this talk we will discuss how our curriculum development projects (Physlets, Easy Java/JavaScript Simulations, and Open Source Physics) are merging with the EPUB electronic book format. Specifically we will discuss the EPUB format and how we are taking an iterative approach to producing interactive electronic books for astronomy and physics.
Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers
Part of the Best Practices in Educational Technology I series
Minneapolis, MN: July 26 - July 30, 2014
Pages 19
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Astronomy Education
Education Practices
- Active Learning
= Modeling
- Instructional Material Design
- Technology
= Multimedia
- Lower Undergraduate
- High School
- Upper Undergraduate
- Event
= Conference
- Instructional Material
= Best practice
- Reference Material
= Proceedings
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, and K. Thompson, , presented at the Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Minneapolis, MN, 2014, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13359&DocID=3929).
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, and K. Thompson, Writing Electronic Books with Interactive Curricular Material, presented at the Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Minneapolis, MN, 2014, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13359&DocID=3929>.
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Belloni, M., Christian, W., & Thompson, K. (2014, July 26 - July 30). Writing Electronic Books with Interactive Curricular Material. Paper presented at Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Minneapolis, MN. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13359&DocID=3929
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Belloni, M, W. Christian, and K. Thompson. "Writing Electronic Books with Interactive Curricular Material." Paper presented at the Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Minneapolis, MN, July 26 - July 30, 2014. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13359&DocID=3929 (accessed 24 April 2024).
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Belloni, Mario, Wolfgang Christian, and Kristen Thompson. "Writing Electronic Books with Interactive Curricular Material." Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Minneapolis, MN: 2014. 19 of Best Practices in Educational Technology I. 24 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13359&DocID=3929>.
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