Creating eBooks for distance education - Case study Video Lecture | Teach Online: A Comprehensive Approach for Teaching Online - Professional Skills

an e-book is simply a book in electronic
format that can be downloaded from the
internet on to portable devices called
eerie readers Therese bird played an
important part in the launch of ebooks
at the University of Leicester in the UK
as part of the duckling research project
students were given ebooks and e-readers
as part of their study in to fully
online distance programs in occupational
psychology and education Therese
explains the benefits that ebooks can
bring to students and also outlines how
simple it can be to create your own
ebooks for use in education in the
duckling project we worked with two
departments one of these departments
they actually have been printing up and
sending out to these students around the
world stacks of documents the cost for
each student was five or six hundred
pounds this ebook reader costs 150
pounds so it's a definite savings over
shipping out the materials an e-book is
an electronic book so I think of it that
the e-book is the file which it's an
electronic version of a book which can
be read on some device another example
of an e-book reader device would be an
ipad amazon kindle
we'll use their iphones as ebook readers
well these are working students they're
very busy they're on the go all the time
for them to have everything in one
easily carried package was a brilliant
thing for them also this is not
dependent on the internet so it didn't
matter where you were you know you could
be hiking and you can still have your
stuff this thing holds 200 books so we
could just you know jam loads of
materials on here these devices hold
your place and so the students said it
was great I could just pick up where i
was you know yesterday and just make use
of 10 minutes really well whereas I
would have been fiddling with the papers
during that time so they used terms like
it revolutionized my study skills
how does one turn your word document
handout into an e-book ready documents
you have your word doc or docx you just
go save as and you save it as an HTML
go on google put in caliber see a li bre
and download it it's free
you just launched that up and you import
your HTML file into calibre
then you plug in your e-book reader into
your computer and calibre will see this
and then you just say put this onto my
device and voila it appears and it works
you know epub is is it it's it's a
commonly used format now and VL ease
should be having their documents in epub
format for people with you know iphones
ipads everything now give it a try it's
just five short steps it really isn't
very difficult
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