{"id":216,"date":"2022-07-10T19:54:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T02:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/?p=216"},"modified":"2022-07-10T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T02:55:34","slug":"project-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/2022\/07\/10\/project-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>A Case Study on the Utilization of Interactive eBooks in Post Secondary Education<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>An eBook is an electronic book that can be read digitally on a computer screen, tablet, e-book reader, or mobile phone.\u00a0 While this may seem like a simple definition, as eBooks improve and become more interactive, it becomes increasingly more difficult to define what an eBook is and what it can do.\u00a0 Interactive eBooks are no longer just a PDF version of a textbook.\u00a0 An interactive eBook has various elements that educators and learners can interact with.\u00a0 In addition to text, it contains rich media such as digital images, GIFs, videos, audio files, interactive graphs and charts, polls, maps, presentation slides, file uploads, downloadable cloud files, LMS integration, engagement insights, and\/or feedback.\u00a0 Initially, eBooks were simply electronic versions of its printed counterpart, utilizing one-way interaction.\u00a0 However, developers of eBook technology continue to push the boundaries of how an eBook can perform and what has never been developed before.\u00a0 We know that technology changes us and the world around us.\u00a0 If it didn\u2019t, we would still require oral communication to transmit history and without paper, books would still be printed on silk scrolls that only the wealthy could afford.\u00a0 Who has demanded this shift?\u00a0 We know that educators and learners alike have changed their attitudes towards teaching and learning, or have textbook publishers, who have had to become educational technology experts played a role in this shift.\u00a0 My case study aims to analyze the utilization of interactive eBooks in post secondary education from the perspective of a user who actively supports and teaches students using this technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Case Study on the Utilization of Interactive eBooks in Post Secondary Education An eBook is an electronic book that can be read digitally on a computer screen, tablet, e-book reader, or mobile phone.\u00a0 While this may seem like a simple definition, as eBooks improve and become more interactive, it becomes increasingly more difficult to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ed-tech-foundations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/robinmchugh540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}