Digital Textbooks

Custom interactives - from animated maps and timelines, to 3D models and data visualizations - enable students to more efficiently visualize and understand the "who, what, where, when, why, and how", and devote more class time to higher level analysis and evaluation.

Content is continuously updated, ensuring that students have access to the most current and relevant information. They can be seamlessly revised with news, updates, and evolving scholarship, avoiding outdated information and eliminating the need for versions or editions.

Traditional graphics can only show discrete moments, which require the student conjecture about what occurred in between. Interactives - including maps maps, timelines, animations, and data visualizations - allow students to to visualize across space and time.

Books can be delivered to the reader instantaneously via our platform without any legwork, stock issues, or shipping. Authors no longer need to work with publishers, printers, middlemen, or other gatekeepers to distribute content. The slow, expensive, and complicated publishing process is no longer necessary; your content reach a worldwide audience in a second.

Students click, touch, listen, watch, drag, rotate and otherwise interact with the multimedia content and text. By engaging multiple senses and regularly alternating between sensory requirements, the digital books keep students engaged, reduce reader’s fatigue, and improve retention. They also, in turn, can accommodate a wide variety of leaning styles and paces.

For authors and instructors, detailed analytics are available to understand how students use the content, while in-text assessments allow them to evaluate student comprehension. These tools allow instructors to assess students AND and revise content in real-time. This unique, two-way feedback allows for the continuous improvement.

Structured navigation and layered content allows for broad access and deep exploration. Interactives allow for accessible condensation of extensive information. Multimedia give deeper learning opportunities. Captions, biographies, glossary terms, hotspots, and other pop-ups provide hierarchal, intuitive, and deep exploration without overwhelming the student.

The mobility of our immersive products allows students to access content at the bus stop, on a train, at the coffee shop, or wherever is most convenient for them. No more lugging around heavy texts or notebooks; course content and notes are always accessible with a mobile device. And with the ability to download for offline use, content is available even if WiFi is not.

Media are rich with metadata to ensure easy reference for assignments. And embedded endnotes, credits, data, and links - both internal and external - give readers direct access to the sources cited. Content, and its relation to larger information ecosystems, can be investigated and validated without tedious digital and in-person sourcing and searching.