You can add notes, as well, and any highlights and notes can be automatically converted into new Study Cards; you can use these to study your highlighted notes, or even use them as flash cards with glossary terms and definitions, with a built-in shuffle mode. The typical end-of-book quizzes have also undergone an overhaul: Quizzes have multiple-choice questions with illustrated answers, and immediate feedback for the user.
Apple on Thursday also announced a new iTunes U application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch that helps teachers create courses and offers free educational content for students from dozens of universities, including Cambridge, Duke, Harvard, Oxford and Stanford. Further reading: apple , apple publishing , books on the ipad , cloud computing , digital publishing , digital textbooks , ebooks , ibook , ibook 2 , ibooks 2 , ibooks2 , ipad textbooks.
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It is the interactivity that Apple was focused on. Following are the new features of iBooks 2 that Apple highlighted during its unveiling at an education focused event in New York City:. Organize books You can give your book structure and form. Navigate your book with an automatically generated table of contents. Duplicate, move, or copy and paste pages or sections of your book. Add links to webpages or other pages in your book. Create and save your template to use again as a model for new books.
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