The textbooks students are using in class are not their parents textbooks.And they shouldn't be.The books must remain relevant.Online instructional material
Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu launched e-textbooks for classes pre-primary to Class XII including 475 titles of Textbooks in 8 mediums ,19 languages.
As the pandemic and subsequent lockdown proved, humans are amazingly adjustable beings.Who can forget how quickly schools and colleges moved from physical classrooms to virtual.
This paper addresses digital transformation in higher education by exploring the engagement and use of e-textbooks through an affordance theory lens. Drawing on the insights from in-depth interviews (n = 18), focus group discussions (n = 15), a pilot survey (n = 83) and the main survey (n = 344) in Australia, we developed and validated an affordance actualisation model for the engagement and use of e-textbooks. The partial least squares (PLS) technique was used to validate the dimensions of affordance actualisation and its relationship with e-textbooks engagement and affordance effect. The findings indicate the efficacy of the two affordance constructs, as well as the significant mediating effect of engagement. An important lesson for the e-textbook industry is that firms need to consider affordance actualisation dimensions (i.e., portability, accessibility, searchability, highlighting, copying, browsing, hedonic and utilitarian value) when enhancing digital engagement and use of e-tex
BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) Around 10,000 types of textbooks for vocational education programs will be compiled during China 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2