Apple believes that
technology has the power to transform the classroom. It can pave many ways of
thinking and new ways of sparking ideas. Still the foundation never changes.
Apple says iBooks
Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager are expanding into new markets across
Asia, Latin America, and Europe and across the world. iBooks Textbooks bring
Multi-Touch textbooks with dynamic, current and simply interactive content to
teachers and students in 51 countries now including Italy, Brazil and Japan.
iTunes U Course Manager is available in 70 countries now including Russia,
Thailand and Malaysia which allow educators to create and distribute courses
for their own classrooms or to share them publicly on the iTunes U app.
iBooks Textbooks offer
iPad users full screen textbooks with animations, rotating 3D diagrams,
flick-through photo galleries and tap-to-play videos. iBooks Textbooks do not
weigh down a backpack and can be updated as events unfold and don’t need to be
returned. With about 25,000 educational titles created by independent
publishers, teachers and other leading education companies, including new
content from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, iBooks
Textbooks now cover 100 percent of US high school core curriculum and the
General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) core curriculum in the UK.
With iTunes U Course
Manager Educators can quickly and easily share their knowledge and resources
directly with their class or to a global audience on iTunes U. This free iOS
application gives millions of learners access
the world the largest online catalog of free educational content from
top schools, leading universities and various prominent institutions. iTunes U
Course manager also impart teachers the ability to integrate their own
documents as part of course curriculum as well as content from the Internet,
iBooks Store and over 750,000 materials from existing iTunes U collections or
any of the millions of iOS apps available on the revolutionary App Store.
When it comes to
finding content for your lessons, iPad has something for you to teach. And for
everything that your students want to learn. There several apps, interactive
textbooks, videos, audios and podcasts that cover every subject and every grade
level. The App Store, iBooks, and iTunes U make it simple to navigate and find
what you need and new resources are added every day.
There is a reason why
iPad has become a favorite of students and teachers. You can easily customize
the learning experience for each and every student with apps and books geared
to any level. You can teach them with your own interactive materials created
with iBooks Author and can organize and deliver all your lessons with iTunes U,
so that your students have access to their learning materials on iPad wherever
they go.
This is Apple’s noble
step towards educating students worldwide and to provide them with educational
content with a single touch.
Author : Iman Majeed Source : Applenews
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