数字学习生态系统中的电子课本(英文)

E-Textbooks in a digital ecosystem for learning

本文认为,教育在本质上是交互性的而不只是信息的传播.如果遵循这个理论,尽管商业电子书作为独立的产品是可行的,但是电子课本还需要嵌入一个更广泛的数字生态系统来学习.这个生态系统,将包括许多不同形式的软件,提供交互性,报告交互性的成果,分析个别学生的能力和管理他们的进展.在这样的生态系统中,电子课本在支持开放标准的互操作性上发挥着至关重要的作用.本文将反映一些ISO/IEC研究中的主要结果.

The ISO/IEC project has so far used an online survey to discover what stakeholders across the world perceive to be the particular challenges that will be faced when technologies originally developed for commercial e-Books are transferred for use in formal education. This paper reflects on some of the key findings of this ISO/IEC work. Mr Weston argues that education is fundamentally about interactivity and not just about the dissemination of information. If follows that while commercial e-Books are viable as stand-alone products, e-Textbooks need to be embedded within a wider digital ecosystem for learning, an ecosystem that will comprise many different forms of software, delivering interactivity, reporting on the outcomes of that interactivity, profiling the capabilities of individual students and managing their progression. For e-Textbooks to play a full part in such an ecosystem, it is vital that they support open standards for interoperability.