The digital textbooka look at the current state of the art

Abstract

This paper is a first review of the research, reflections and opinions that have been made and published in recent years involving digital textbooks. It should be pointed out that studies on this subject are a relatively recent phenomenon, thus, much of the work and research analyzed here ranges over the last five years. It is also a subject that is treated very differently across countries and continents due to the different levels of implementation and consideration of digital textbooks. Insofar as the structure of the chapter, we will start by examining some of the reasons for making a review at this time. Afterward, in order to define the significance of our work and potential offshoots in the field of research and educational practice, we will include the section entitled, What do we mean by digital textbooks, where we aim to specify the concept of digital textbooks. Later, there is a section entitled Research on digital textbooks, where we present a review of the main papers and research on the topic. This section is subdivided according to main study themes. We finalize with the section, What’s new in the research on digital textbook?where we analyze and compare research on digital textbooks and traditional textbooks