The document discusses a conference on information and communications technology (ICT) education. It notes that Michael Qaissaunee of Brookdale Community College in New Jersey received funding from the National Science Foundation for a project called E-MATE to develop reusable frameworks and templates for electronic textbooks, mobile apps, and web apps for technical education. The goal is to address issues like the outdated traditional textbook model and students' growing use of technology for studying. The project will explore format and distribution options for digital content like PDF, HTML5, ePub, and Kindle, along with issues around digital rights management (DRM).

1. Michael Qaissaunee, PI
Brookdale Community College
Lincroft, NJ 07738
2013 Winter ICT Educator Conference
“Doing What Matters for ICT Education”
San Francisco January 3-4, 2013
a project supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE 1205113

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4. BOOKs

5. Bio-Optic
Organizers of
Knowledge

8. the traditional college textbook model will likely suffer the
same fate as the traditional encyclopedia when it was
challenged by Wikipedia

9. among students surveyed:
51% likely to bring a laptop to class
39% likely to bring a print textbook
to class
most students use some sort
of technology to study
(laptop, phone, e-reader)
... but ...
still not buying
digital textbooks

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

13. Networking
Electronics
Math

14. •PDF
•Web (HTML5/Flash) •Web (HTML5/Flash)
•EPub (iOS, other) •iBooks (iOS only)
•Mobi (Kindle, others) •KF8 (Kindle Format)
•AZW (Kindle only)
DRM???

16. iBooks Author

17. Controversy ????

18. Widgets

37. Michael Qaissaunee, PI Kelly Parr, Project Administrator
mqaissaunee@brookdalecc.edu kparr@brookdalecc.edu
732-224-2879 732-224-2193
www.e-mate-bcc.org