{"id":529,"date":"2012-01-19T16:04:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=529"},"modified":"2012-01-19T16:04:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:04:33","slug":"advancement-in-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Advancement In Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is really excellent to see Apple advancing the textbook in the form of a digital textbook on the iPad with some interactivity.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long it will be before someone hooks online tutoring into the mix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_531\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/QTTextbookConcept.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-531 \" title=\"QuikkTutor Textbook Concept\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/QTTextbookConcept-227x300.png\" alt=\"QuikkTutor Textbook Concept\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/QTTextbookConcept-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/QTTextbookConcept.png 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">QuikkTutor Textbook Concept<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Checkout the concept we had with QuikkTutor more than 10 years ago that textbook publishers couldn&#8217;t understand but I see that we were just way ahead of our time. Note, that QuikkTutor was fully functional as seen in this rough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/TimsBlog\/quikktutor\/QuikkTUTORTextBook.pps\">presentation demo<\/a>. It was just the link from a standard textbook that was the concept. The presentation only makes sense if you run it in presentation mode due to the audio and video embedded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very good to see Apple advancing the textbook in the form of a digital textbook on the iPad with some interactivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,158,157,159,160],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-apple","tag-ipad","tag-quikktutor","tag-textbook","tag-tutor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}