Online learning and textbooks
The materials on this page will help you if you choose Option 2 for Project 3.
You are free to use any of the items and links on this page as background or sources for your project.
Problem: Most textbooks are designed for print formats, and many online courses are not designed to work well on mobile devices. As you are aware, these are real problems today, for both teachers and students. Based on your experiences as an online learner yourself, combined with what you have learned in this class about technology and literacy, what do you think the “textbook of the future” looks like? How does it work for online and mobile learning?
For centuries, the dominant forms of instruction have been the printed textbook and the lecture. Neither of those formats works very well on a mobile phone! Simply reformatting textbooks and lectures for mobile or online learners does not work very well. What do you propose as a new model? How might educators learn how to design and compose more effective learning experiences for students like you?
You are free to use any of the items and links on this page as background or sources for your project.
Problem: Most textbooks are designed for print formats, and many online courses are not designed to work well on mobile devices. As you are aware, these are real problems today, for both teachers and students. Based on your experiences as an online learner yourself, combined with what you have learned in this class about technology and literacy, what do you think the “textbook of the future” looks like? How does it work for online and mobile learning?
For centuries, the dominant forms of instruction have been the printed textbook and the lecture. Neither of those formats works very well on a mobile phone! Simply reformatting textbooks and lectures for mobile or online learners does not work very well. What do you propose as a new model? How might educators learn how to design and compose more effective learning experiences for students like you?
Note: Many of the resources posted on the OA Publishing page are also relevant to this topic.
ThinkificThinkific is an ed-tech company based in Vancouver, BC, that aims to make online learning accessible to anyone. Instructors can create and sell online courses directly through the Thinkific platform, selling courses directly to students. How does their platform compare to Blackboard? Have you taken courses on Thinkific? Check them out.
FrankenbookFrankenbook is an open-access online edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, designed and published using MIT Press's PubPub technology. It may be a good model of an annotatable open-access textbook of the future.
As MIT describes this project: "Frankenbook is a collective reading and collaborative annotation experience of the original 1818 text of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The project launched in January 2018, as part of Arizona State University’s celebration of the novel’s 200th anniversary. Even two centuries later, Shelley’s modern myth continues to shape the way people imagine science, technology, and their moral consequences. Frankenbook gives readers the opportunity to trace the scientific, technological, political, and ethical dimensions of the novel, and to learn more about its historical context and enduring legacy." 
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UdemyUdemy is one of the largest platforms today for online learning. Anyone can take online courses on subjects ranging from business and IT to design and personal development. Udemy even has a collection of courses about teaching online.
GhostGhost is an open-source web publishing platform that can be used to create blogs and other digital publications.
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