NSF-funded project helps faculty build interactive e-books | Education Dive

"Mike Qaissaunee, chair of the engineering and technology department at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey, is using a National Science Foundation grant to create a new model for e-book creation. Campus Technology reports Qaissaunee’s E-MATE, or E-books and Mobile Apps for Technician Education, project aims to give faculty the tools to create interactive e-books as well as the resources and training materials to master the process, including advice about what to make interactive (not everything, just the most difficult-to-grasp concepts). iBooks Author is free and offers a range of templates for Apple-friendly texts, as well as an export option to interactive PDFs that can be built out with BookWidgets or Tumult Hype ..."