Using an iBooks we have been able to create a textbook that better matches today’s students learning styles. There is little doubt that today’s students have vastly different learning styles than those of students 20 or 30 years ago, but for the most part textbooks have failed to address these differences. This failure of textbooks to evolve with our students has hindered many students ability to succeed in the classroom. This project explored the effectiveness of using a multimedia platform, an iBook, to more effectively convey the traditionally dense material of chemistry course into a manner that will better match today’s students learning styles, without compromising the depth of the content. An iBooks presents an ideal platform for constructing a hybrid textbook, which includes videos, images and allows for facile presentation of key concepts. The iBook is broken into chapters just like a traditional textbook, but inside of each of those chapters are units, which contain text that gives a detailed explanation of the topic and key points about the content, video explanation of the concepts and videos of the instructor working problems based on the concept being presented, and lastly a quiz that allows the student apply the knowledge they just examined. Herein we will present the pedagogical benefits of incorporating an iBook in a chemistry course.

Using iBooks to create textbooks that match students’ current learning styles

256th National Meeting (2018)

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