Abstract:

Glance over the development situation of digital textbooks for basic education in three

typical countries i.e. the United States， South Korea， and Malaysia; differentiate three Chinese terms

of textbooks ；then make a systematic review about the connotation， denotation， properties，

functions of digital textbooks， and the research progress about K-12 digital textbooks abroad，

namely ： digital textbooks are digital knowledge corpus， teaching/learning tools or their

combination with some devices and services that serving some teaching/learning; attentions to

perceptual attributes such as accessibility， usability and affordability for digital textbooks have

increased; with the wide application of e-dictionaries， e-libraries and other similar equipment

and functions， personalized learning services have become a new growth point， whereas

cognitive learning theory and constructivism have great potentials in guiding the development of

digital-textbook-related services; with the fading of technological fever， foreign countries began

to reflect on the changes and influences brought by digital textbooks to teachers， students and

schools， and turn to the research of “socio-technology” paradigm about digital textbooks ， such

as the technology acceptance and adoption of digital teaching materials， the business models of

digital teaching materials etc.

Key words:

Digital textbooks Digital educational resources Digital educational publishing

Education informatization Digital publishing

CLC Number: 

• G237