Digital textbooks in the classroom [infographic]

This infographic made by Online Universities takes a look at the increasing role of digital textbooks in education.

Key word to success is affordability of digital textbooks rather than their up-to-date content. The cost of the digital textbook is not only the price of the book, but also the price of the device.

Sure, such a device can be used longer than one year (and actually who is going to buy devices for classrooms?), but on the other hand the life cycle of a tablet is not 10 years, but 2-3 years.

Having in mind, that a multimedia textbook created with the iBooks Author application can take as much as 1 GB of disk space, a question to be asked is how many physical textbooks can be actually replaced by one tablet with their digital versions.

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Source: Accredited Online Universities Guide. Via WiredAcademic.