Reinventing Textbooks
iBooks 2
Study card option turns your highlights into virtual index cards to swipe through.
Gorgeous, fullscreen books. Interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos. Fast, fluid navigation. Highlighting and note-taking. Searching and definitions. Lesson reviews and study cards.
iBooks Author is a Mac application that lets you create everything we just saw
Anyone can create stunning, interactive books. From textbooks to cookbooks to travel books to whatever you can imagine. Beautiful templates, multitouch widgets, photos, and videos, extend with HTML5 and JavasScript, and publish to iBookstore.
High school textbooks is where we're starting. They're $14.99 or less. "Whoa" says crowd.
Educational learning companies have given us a ton of advice. Including Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Together, these three companies account for 90 percent of textbooks sold in the US.
"That is reinventing the textbook. That's the FIRST thing we wanted to tell you about today."
The second thing we're doing for education is Reinventing Curriculum. To do that, let's talk iTunes U.
We want to let teachers do more—full online courses. The syllabus, interactive material, the reading material, and more.
Today, we're announcing iTunes U app.
iTunes U: Full courses with video, documents, apps, and books. You can see the syllabus and all assignments. Teacher posts and updates. iBooks notes integration.
The Apple Classroom of Tomorrow—a decade-long study.