(906.pdf) IMPLEMENTATION OF “IBOOKS AUTHOR” ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING OBJECTS ON BLENDED LEARNING EDUCATION

摘要

The advance on the development of new technologies has evolved exponentially in recent years. Thisimprovement has a direct impact on education where there are now very popular tools for conductingelectronic academic presentations as "Power Point", "Adobe Reader" (PDF) and "Prezi" because of itscompatibility with different platforms and its simplicity on interface management.Recently arises a new option that combines static text with multimedia objects, this could improvelearning objects known as now and opens new ways for education using "iBooks Author" the first trulyintuitive and easy tool for publishing eBooks, a strong multimedia component. [1]"IBooks Author" offers a new world of possibilities where auto edition is reachable to anyone without(or with very little) prior knowledge, eBooks can be published in a visual and simple way.Textbooks are just one example, the possibilities go far beyond. The Faculty of Computing Mazatlan,in Autonomous University of Sinaloa in its implementation of a degree of blended learning mode, usesiBook Author to digitalize its classes in an interactive way in which teachers can keep their teachingmaterials on an e-portfolio server which, according to Greenberg (2004) [2], the e-portfolio is aNetwork Application that provides the author with administrative functions for managing andorganizing work (files) created with different applications and for controlling who can see the work andwho can discuss the work (access).This gives the student the opportunity not only to see the content but also to hear the multimediateaching material, as many times as necessary, and strengthen their learning in a much moreattractive. All this without being in person at the university, only by visiting the e-portfolio hosted onsome service of "Cloud Computing".In this sense, this paper attempts to measure the level of feasibility on the implementation of this newtechnology and the replacement of any other format through an analysis of acceptance with studentsthat consult materials developed with "iBooks Author" from Apple, within the learning managementsystem used in the Faculty.