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When learning material involves unfamiliar terminology or techniques, it is important for a student to see or hear the terms and methods applied through a number of different presentations. Just reading the terms ‘instantaneous velocity’ once, in a single sentence or problem, isn’t enough to drive a new concept home.
How great would it be for a student who reads the words 'angular momentum' to quickly access a video where s/he hears the same terms used in other examples and settings.
At Electric Book, we supplement text-based review materials with streamlined tools that allow students to not only search for terms through the booklet, but also apply queries against transcripts of some of the best Open CourseWare videos available.
And now, we are announcing our most ambitious Electric Booklet project.
Our University Physics booklet combines the outstanding text published by OpenStax, University Physics, Volume 1, with 170 videos from MIT’s Open CourseWare project Classical Mechanics. The result is a physics review booklet which provides a one stop site where a student can view quality example problems in text and graphics, AND search the transcripts of curated videos to find audio segments from the MIT site. Both the textbook and the videos are published under a creative commons license.
When a student searches for terms throughout the suite of videos (we calls these ‘Study Suites’), only the MIT video transcripts are searched, reducing the amount of time otherwise wasted on unsatisfactory search results.
This innovative combination of best-of-breed textbooks with integrated search of selected videos allows students to quickly see (and hear) how complex terms or methods are used in multiple presentations – be they text-base example problems or on-line lecture presentations. These varied perspectives of a subject give students a leg up on mastering difficult material when compared to the use of traditional publications and e-learning sites.
The ‘University Physics’ study suite, combining University Physics – Volume 1 text and MIT Open CourseWare video, is just one example of how other colleges, universities, and companies can leverage their video content by working with Electric Book to provide study suites for their students or employees.
See this illustration for an example of how video search is connected to our University Physics booklet. You can reach the starting point for the demo at our Bookshelf.
If your school or organization is trying to find new channels to leverage your investment in quality video content, contact Electric Book to explore the possibility of building a custom study suite for your students.
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The Electric Book Company is pleased to announced the release of two new ‘Electric Booklet’ titles - Chemistry 2e, and Chemistry: Atoms First 2e.
Chemistry 2e is designed to meet the scope and requirements of a two-semester general chemistry course. Chemistry Atoms First 2e was produced through a partnership between OpenStax and the University of Connecticut and Uconn Undergraduate Student Government Association. It is an adaptation of the ‘2e’ title that introduces atomic and molecular structure much earlier than the traditional approach to chemistry.
Electric Booklets are mobile-friendly collections of all the example problems extracted from the complete titles released by OpenStax under the Creative Commons License. These companion titles are ideal supplements to the full text, allowing students to quickly locate, bookmark, and share sample problems presented in the original textbook. All example problems include references to the source chapter within the original title.
To see the complete collection of Electric Booklets, visit the company's Electric Book Viewer.
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The Electric Book Company is excited to announce the availability of two new 'Electric Booklet Titles' - 'Algebra and Trigonometry' and 'College Physics'.
Electric Booklets are derived companion works based off peer-reviewed textbooks published by OpenStax under the Creative Commons license.
The added titles now make available more than 2000 example problems reformatted to take better advantage of mobile delivery. All booklet content is bookmark-able (save a reference to a specific problem, rather than some PDF page reference), includes references to source book materials, and include embedded search tools to access Youtube video lectures.
Schools, colleges, and universities also have available the opportunity to add their own video lectures to a title, forming a complete 'study suite' of content combining quality text and video for students in any learning setting.
To see the list of all available titles, visit Electric Booklets .
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Just in time for the start of the upcoming academic semester, Electric Book Company announces the release of three more 'Electric Booklets' derived from the publishers at OpenStax.
The three volume set of University Physics by Moebs, Ling and Sanny is now available at the Company's booklet site. The complete set of Electric Booklets for University Physics makes available over 480 example problems that are optimized for use on mobile devices.
Each booklet contains the 'standard features' provided by the company:
- option to display only the individual steps of solution sequences
- easy-to-use popups to display referenced formulas
- ability to use browser bookmark to reference a specific example solution
- links to the source textbook's chapter containing the complete background text of the subject at hand
Electric Booklets are the first components of what will become 'Study Suites' that combine the best in create commons content with material provided by schools and companies, as well as commercially available resources to meet the needs of today's learning communities.
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Electric Book Company has produced its first Electric Booklet title - College Algebra - the companion product for College Algebra by OpenStax. Click HERE to view the company's first Electric Booklet.
The companion work includes over 500 example problems obtained from the original title; the booklet is released through the Creative Commons BY license.
Under the CCBY license, Electric Book is free to produce commercial, derivative works, so long as the content includes proper attribution and links to the original content. As the booklet contains only example problems, it serves as an ideal 'go to' product for students who want to quickly access practice materials that focus on the development of problem-solving skills.
EBC re-formats original content to provide a superior user experience either on a desktop or on mobile device. One of the key features of an Electric Booklet is the ability to turn on 'single-stepping', enabling the display of portions of the solution narrative to allow students to better reflect on the manipulations needed for the next step of a solution sequence.
The booklet is searchable, and individual problems are easily saved for future reference by using the browser bookmark feature. Individual problems can also be shared through Facebook.
College Algebra is the initial Electric Booklet title available from EBC; additional titles will be available during upcoming months.
