{"id":55,"date":"2015-10-26T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/?p=55"},"modified":"2015-10-26T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:31:24","slug":"another-e-book-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/2015\/10\/26\/another-e-book-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Another e-book product: SmartBook"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a month ago I posted a blog about the evolution of e-books<\/a>. In this post I briefly described\u00a0 one product by Pearson called Revel<\/a>.\u00a0 In this week’s post I want to share the product from another publisher, McGraw-Hill, and their approach to e-books.\u00a0 MGH’s SmartBook<\/a> product is an e-book based on the principles of mastery learning.\u00a0 Mastery learning is the notion of having learners study material and then demonstrate their competence typically through quizzing.\u00a0 Mastery learning requires a student to master earlier material before moving on to more complex material.\u00a0 MGH’s SmartBook product uses this basic principle.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, instructors select the learning objectives from the text that they want their students to learn and the depth at which they wish to have students learn the material (from very basic understanding to having a deeper conceptual understanding of the material).\u00a0 Students then read the text and answer a series of questions.\u00a0 The question presentation is based on a complex algorithm\u00a0 which adapts to several things that the student can do while answering questions (if right\/wrong, level of confidence, time to answer, clicking on resources, etc) so each student’s question experience is different (which makes cheating and copying off one another difficult).\u00a0 Based on the question performance and the student’s confidence level, completing an assignment can take a very short amount of time (if the student knows the material and is confident) or a very long amount of time (if simply guessing and clicking through).<\/p>\n

In addition to these features, the grades from the assignments can be integrated into a Moodle gradebook (we just need to obtain the plug-in so if you are interested let me know).\u00a0 Also there are some possibilities for assessment results to be displayed as well.<\/p>\n

Comparing the two products, they are very different.\u00a0 From my viewpoint, Revel focuses more on creating interactivity in the books and segmenting the learning (read a little then do a little) more whereas SmartBook focuses more on using the mastery learning approach to help get students to read and study more before class.\u00a0 SmartBook is created for both computer and mobile devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a month ago I posted a blog about the evolution of e-books. In this post I briefly described\u00a0 one product by Pearson called Revel.\u00a0 In this week’s post I want to share the product from another publisher, McGraw-Hill, and their approach to e-books.\u00a0 MGH’s SmartBook product is an e-book based on the principles of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40449,40446],"tags":[40451],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-learning","category-ed-tech-resources","tag-technology-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/msideedtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}