Just as Apple has entered the market for digital music and, more recently, consumer-focused e-books, it appears set to put a digital, interactive spin on the textbook.
"Just as Apple has entered the market for digital music and, more recently, consumer-focused e-books, it appears set to put a digital, interactive spin on the textbook. "
However PISA is not offering such a paradigm. The top performers of PISA are simply better implementation of the old paradigm—the Prussian industrial model of education
Major textbook publishers have been making electronic versions of their products for years, but until recently, there hasn't been any hardware suitable to display them.
Apple also released iBooks Author, a new tool meant to lure publishers into creating new content specifically for the iPad education user.
even if an iPad were to last for five years in the hands of students, the e-books plus the iPad would cost more than the hardback textbooks.