An update to the home campus community on E-MATE, E-books and Mobile Apps for Technician Education, a project supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1205113.

1. A project supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE 1205113
Brookdale Community College Scholar’s Day
May15, 2013
Michael Qaissaunee, Principal Investigator
Kelly Parr, Project Administrator

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

4. Why?

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

9. >3X CPI
increase

10. No
Plans
36%
Interested
27%
Full-Scale
Implementa on
11%
Inves ga ng
15%
Pilo ng
11%
To what degree do Brookdale faculty plan to adopt
E-books in their courses?
Source: Feb. 2013 survey of Brookdale Community College faculty.

11. from evolution. . .

12. to REVOLUTION

13. ?How

14. Math
Networking
Logistics
Photonics

16. Phase
1
interactive

17. Phase 2
Multi-platform
Multi-device

18. Phase 3
Mobile Apps

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

22. iBooks Author

23. Controversy ????

24. Widgets

42. iBooks Author: $0 (recent Mac only)
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
Tumult Hype: $36 (1-4 license education)
http://tumult.com/hype/purchasing/
Bookry: Free with Bookry branding;
without Bookry branding $24/widget $124/book
http://bookry.com/pricing/
Book Widgets: Subscription for small publisher 50%
education discount $250/year for up to 10 macs, 5 people,
no branding
http://www.ibook-widgets.com/#pricing

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