2013 brookdale community college scholars day

A project supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE 1205113

Brookdale Community College Scholar’s DayMay15, 2013

Michael Qaissaunee, Principal InvestigatorKelly Parr, Project Administrator

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The goal of the project is to develop reusable frameworks and templates for the development of e-books, mobile and web-based applications for technical education.

Why?

among students surveyed:

51% likely to bring a laptop to class

39% likely to bring a print textbook

most students use some sort of technology to study (laptop, phone, e-reader)

still not buying digital textbooks

... but ...

>3X CPI increase

NoPlans36%

Interested27%

Full-Scale

Implementa on

11%

Inves ga ng15%

Pilo ng11%

To what degree do Brookdale faculty plan to adopt E-books in their courses?

Source: Feb. 2013 survey of Brookdale Community College faculty.

from evolution. . .

to REVOLUTION

?How

Math

Networking

LogisticsPhotonics

Phase 1

interactive

Phase 2

Multi-platformMulti-device

Phase 3

Mobile Apps

The traditional college textbook model will likely suffer the same fate as the traditional encyclopedia

when it was challenged by Wikipedia

iBooks Author

Controversy ????

Widgets

iBooks Author: $0 (recent Mac only) http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

Tumult Hype: $36 (1-4 license education)http://tumult.com/hype/purchasing/

Bookry: Free with Bookry branding; without Bookry branding $24/widget $124/bookhttp://bookry.com/pricing/

Book Widgets: Subscription for small publisher 50% education discount $250/year for up to 10 macs, 5 people, no branding http://www.ibook-widgets.com/#pricing

Michael Qaissaunee, PImqaissaunee@brookdalecc.edu732-224-2879

Kelly Parr, Project Administratorkparr@brookdalecc.edu732-224-2193

www.e-mate-bcc.org