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e-Textbooks: Towards the New Socio-Technical Regime

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New Horizons in Web Based Learning (ICWL 2014)

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This paper discusses the niche technologies that have and possibly will contribute to the future e-textbooks as a new socio-technical regime. We propose the conceptual map of textbook functionalities aiming at opening the conceptual discussion for brainstorming and finding scenarios how the niche technologies that explored novel textbook applications in learning might be best combined into the new “artifact ecosystems” regime. Jointly with workshop participants we aim to come up with metaphors and concepts depicting learning in this regime.

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    Kai Pata, Maka Eradze & Mart Laanpere

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    Yiwei Cao

  2. Institute of Informatics, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Terje Väljataga

  3. Department of Computer Science, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tseung Kwan, Hong Kong SAR

    Jeff K.T. Tang

  4. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Howard Leung

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    Mart Laanpere

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Pata, K., Eradze, M., Laanpere, M. (2014). e-Textbooks: Towards the New Socio-Technical Regime. In: Cao, Y., Väljataga, T., Tang, J., Leung, H., Laanpere, M. (eds) New Horizons in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13296-9_25

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