Electronic textbooks for ukrainian education: Statistics, models of development, quality problems
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Date
2020
Authors
Zhenchenko, Maryna
Melnyk, Oksana
Miroshnychenko, Viktoriia
Zhenchenko, Igor
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The article provides the result of scientific research on developing electronic textbooks (e-textbooks) for Ukrainian schoolсhildren. The aim of
this empirical research was to compare e-textbooks development in 2018 and
2019, found out the major players in the Ukrainian e-textbook market for general secondary education institutions, the level of e-textbooks’ provision in primary, middle and high schools, subjects that are most popular among Ukrainian
e-textbooks publishers.
It was found out that the number of e-textbooks publishers has grown from 5 in
2018 to 9 in 2019, the largest number of e-textbooks for schoolchildren were
developed for the 1st grade students (19 e-textbooks), the least number for the
11th grade students (2 e-textbooks). It was developed the most e-textbooks in the
subjects "I explore the world" and "Mathematics" for the 1st grade (7 and 5 respectively).
The study identified and described two e-textbooks development models of
Ukrainian publishers (outsourcing and standalone) and the platforms they used.
An outsourcing model was used by 6 publishers, a standalone one used by
2 ones; 19 e-textbooks were produced using the first model; 27 e-textbooks
were developed using the last one. Two of the publishers developed e-textbooks
using both models. The most popular platforms for e-textbooks developing were
the platform of the Multimedia Publishing House Rozumnyky (14 e-textbooks)
and the mozaBook Editor program of the Hungarian company Mozaik Education (15 e-textbooks).
It was outlined some quality problems of developed e-textbooks and suggested
the directions for further improvement of e-textbooks.
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electronic textbook, models of electronic textbooks, quality of electronic textbooks, requirement for electronic textbooks, conference materials
Citation
Electronic textbooks for ukrainian education: Statistics, models of development, quality problems [electronic resource] / Zhenchenko M., Melnyk O., Miroshnychenko V., Zhenchenko I. // Proceedings 16th International Conference on ICT in Education, Research and Industrial Applications. Integration, Harmonization and Knowledge Transfer. Volume II: Workshops, ICTERI 2020; Kharkiv, Ukraine, 6 - 10 October 2020. - 2020. - P. 721-733.