People were tired of using the iPad textbook besides using it for reading, says Kalpit Shah, who will be going into his second year at Irvines medical program this fall. They werent using it as a source of communication because they couldnt read or write in it. So a third of the people in my program were using the iPad in class to take notes, the other third were using laptops and the last third were using paper and pencil.
The reason it hasnt caught on yet, he tells me, is that the functionality of e-edition textbooks is incredibly limited, and some students just arent motivated to learn new study behavior.
But a new application called Inkling might change all that. The company just released an updated version last week, and itll be utilized in over 50 undergraduate and graduate classrooms this coming school year.
Digital textbooks are not going to catch on, says Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis as hes giving me a demo over coffee. What I mean by that is the current perspective of the digital textbook is its an exact copy of the print book. Theres Course Smart, etc., these guys who take an image of the page and put it on a screen. If thats how were defining digital textbooks, theres no hope of that becoming a mainstream product.
He calls Inkling a platform for publishers to build rich multimedia content from the ground up, with a heavy emphasis on real-world functionality. The traditional textbook merely serves as a skeleton.
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