Designing an interactive electronic book for first year university mathematics

Abstract

What features of instructional design are most important in constructing an interactive electronic book for university mathematics? Can mathematics courseware be effective in promoting learning? Does interactive courseware have enough advantages to make it worthwhile as a supplement to the traditional lecture and textbook? Are production costs unavoidably enormous?

In this paper we focus on Epsilon, an interactive courseware developed for first year university mathematics. While trying to address the above questions we describe the aims, structure, and i mplementation of Epsilon and discuss the principles behind its several key aspects.

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