Apple® AAPL today announced iBooks® Textbooks and iTunes U® Course Manager are
expanding into new markets across Asia, Latin America, Europe and elsewhere
around the world. iBooks Textbooks bring Multi-Touch™ textbooks with dynamic,
current and interactive content to teachers and students in 51 countries now
including Brazil, Italy and Japan; and iTunes U Course Manager, available in
70 countries now including Russia, Thailand and Malaysia, allows educators to
create and distribute courses for their own classrooms, or share them
publicly, on the iTunes U app.
“The incredible content and tools available for iPad provide teachers with new
ways to customize learning unlike ever before,” said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior
vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We can't wait to see how
teachers in even more countries will create their new lesson plans with
interactive textbooks, apps and rich digital content.”
iBooks Textbooks offer iPad® users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with
interactive animations, rotating 3D diagrams, flick-through photo galleries
and tap-to-play videos. iBooks Textbooks don't weigh down a backpack, can be
updated as events unfold and don't need to be returned. With nearly 25,000
educational titles created by independent publishers, teachers and leading
education services companies, including new educational content from Cambridge
University Press, Oxford University Press and Hodder Education, iBooks
Textbooks now cover 100 percent of US high school core curriculum and the
General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) core curriculum in the UK.
“Oxford University Press is using iBooks Author for Headway, Oxford's all-time
best-selling English language series, to create engaging iBooks Textbooks for
iPad,” said Peter Marshall, Managing Director, ELT Division at Oxford
University Press. “In releasing 13 new iBooks Textbooks, including ‘Headway
Pre-Intermediate,' the best-selling level in the series, we are enriching the
language learning experience for students around the world.”
“We believe resources like iBooks Textbooks represent a monumental shift in
learning because they engage multiple capacities of each individual student,”
said Miguel Dominguez, Marketing Director of Imaxina Novas Tecnoloxias in
Spain, an independent educational content developer and publisher of iBooks
Textbooks, including “The Senses,” which incorporates interactive elements
such as video and animated images of the human eye and ear to illustrate how
the body works.
With iTunes U Course Manager educators can quickly and easily share their
knowledge and resources directly with their class or to a global audience on
iTunes U. This free iOS app gives millions of learners access to the world's
largest online catalog of free educational content from top schools, leading
universities and prominent institutions. iTunes U Course manager also gives
teachers the ability to integrate their own documents as part of course
curriculum, as well as content from the Internet, hundreds of thousands of
books on the iBooks Store, over 750,000 materials from existing iTunes U
collections, or any of the more than one million iOS apps available on the
revolutionary App Store℠.
“iPad is so much more than just a textbook or just a notepad for students—it's
a powerful educational tool, a study partner, a window into the past and a
glimpse of the future,” said Sophie Post, fourth grade history teacher at UK's
Falkner House school. “Teaching history was once a static timeline of events.
In leveraging the entire educational ecosystem of iPad, creating my own iBooks
Textbooks and iTunes U courses, and pulling in apps like History: Maps of the
World, studying history has suddenly become a creative, dynamic and truly
transformative experience for my pupils.”
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X,
iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music
revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the
mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the
future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
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