An electronic book (or e-book) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat panel display of computer or other electronic devices like tablets and smartphones. The users need two types of software: software to create eBooks and software to read the created eBooks.
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University Students: Schoolteacher Partnership With Newly Developed Technologies
Shigeru Ikuta (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Emi Sakurai (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Misa Takayanagi (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Nao Suzuki (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Momoka Horiuchi (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Honami Nakano (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Yui Tamai (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Kana Sugibayashi (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Moeka Yoshida (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Chikako Kaneko (Honmachidahigashi Elementary School, Japan), Yuko Nakazawa (Aiwa Elemnetary School, Japan), Satsuki Yamashita (Fuchu Keyakinomori Gakuen Tokyo Metropolitan School for the Physically Disabled and the Intellectually Disabled, Japan), Mariko Oshima (Hikawa Elementary School, Japan), and Shinya Abe (Gridmark Inc., Japan)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4966-7.ch008
Abstract
University students go to school several times a week, as voluntary supporters, and help teachers not only conduct lessons, but also create self-made teaching materials with newly developed technologies such as multimedia-enabled dot codes and EPUB 3 eBooks with Read-Aloud. The university students-schoolteachers partnership enables the younger students to learn the required subjects with newly educational technologies. For university students, especially those in the pre-service teacher program, such a collaboration is really effective to not only know the class lessons, but also to encourage them to become teachers. The collaborative research works of the university professor with the ICT business companies are crucial to produce newly creative and gifted software and tools for students with various difficulties. This chapter briefly presents newly developed software and tools used for class lessons, and then it describes fruitful collaboration with schoolteachers in creating self-made teaching materials and conducting activities.