Taking education to a higher level is just one of Apple’s present targets.
Apple unveiled the iBooks 2 application for Apple’s iPad. It is a free app programmed for iPad. The free iBooks2 application unveiled on Thursday is one way to enjoy a revolutionized learning.
The youth at this modern state would surely enjoy this new tool. And since that the use of iPad is rampant among many US institutions, teenagers enjoy the value of dynamic learning approach.
Philip Schiller, the Marketing Senior Vice President of Apple, stated that there were about 1.5 million schools in the United States that are pleased with the benefits and convenience of iPad.
New York’s Guggenheim Museum recently hosted a press conference wherein Schiller along with the Apple Management presented the features of the new iBooks features. This new application for iPad includes an interactive diagrams, animations, photos and videos.
The Apple Company added that the said iBooks application is user-friendly. Using this iPad app, studying is very easy as this iPad app aids in the student’s note-taking. Highlighting words is quick and easy. Defining terms is more accessible for it has a search engine that can function as a dictionary while review lessons.
At Apple’s iBook Store, a textbook for high school students is worth 14.99 dollars. The said amount is cheaper when you come across comparing it to printed textbooks available in the actual shelves.
Users of the iBook application will have the opportunity to become authors themselves. This is because, the new iBooks application includes a free tool coined as the iBooks Author.
The free iBooks Author will allow owners to make their own eBooks to issue within the iBookstore.
A partnership with well-known publishers namely McGraw-Hill, Pearson and Mifflin Harcourt had also been declared by Apple.
Apple aims to tap the market world through innovative learning. Truly, the innovation of learning gadgets is on haste.
