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<\/p>\nApple brings iBooks Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager to over 50 countries including Japan. iTunes U Course Manager, available in 70 countries now including Russia, Thailand and Malaysia. I wish I have access to these when I was in school.<\/p>\n
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iBooks Textbooks & iTunes U Course Manager Now Available in Over 50 Countries<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCUPERTINO, California\u201421 January 2014<\/strong>\u2014Apple\u00ae today announced iBooks\u00ae Textbooks and iTunes U\u00ae Course Manager are expanding into new markets across Asia, Latin America, Europe and elsewhere around the world. iBooks Textbooks bring Multi-Touch\u2122 textbooks with dynamic, current and interactive content to teachers and students in 51 countries now including Brazil, Italy and Japan; and iTunes U Course Manager, available in 70 countries now including Russia, Thailand and Malaysia, allows educators to create and distribute courses for their own classrooms, or share them publicly, on the iTunes U app.
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\n<\/span>\u201cThe incredible content and tools available for iPad provide teachers with new ways to customise learning unlike ever before,\u201d said Eddy Cue, Apple\u2019s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to see how teachers in even more countries will create their new lesson plans with interactive textbooks, apps and rich digital content.\u201d
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\n<\/span>iBooks Textbooks offer iPad\u00ae users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, rotating 3D diagrams,\u00a0flick-through photo galleries and tap-to-play videos. iBooks Textbooks don\u2019t weigh down a backpack, can be updated as\u00a0events unfold and don\u2019t need to be returned. With nearly 25,000 educational titles created by independent publishers,\u00a0teachers and leading education services companies, including new educational content from Cambridge University\u00a0Press, Oxford University Press and Hodder Education, iBooks Textbooks now cover 100 percent of US high school core\u00a0curriculum and the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) curriculum in the UK.
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\n<\/span>\u201cOxford University Press is using iBooks Author for Headway, Oxford\u2019s all-time best-selling English language series, to create engaging iBooks Textbooks for iPad,\u201d said Peter Marshall, Managing Director, ELT Division at Oxford University Press. \u201cIn releasing 13 new iBooks Textbooks, including \u2018Headway Pre-Intermediate,\u2019 the best-selling level in the series, we are enriching the language learning experience for students around the world.\u201d
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\n<\/span>\u201cWe believe resources like iBooks Textbooks represent a monumental shift in learning because they engage multiple capacities of each individual student,\u201d said Miguel Dominguez, Marketing Director of Imaxina Novas Tecnoloxias in Spain, an independent educational content developer and publisher of iBooks Textbooks, including \u201cThe Senses,\u201d which incorporates interactive elements such as video and animated images of the human eye and ear to illustrate how the body works.
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\n<\/span>With iTunes U Course Manager educators can quickly and easily share their knowledge and resources directly with their class or to a global audience on iTunes U. This free iOS app gives millions of learners access to the world\u2019s largest online catalog of free educational content from top schools, leading universities and prominent institutions. iTunes U Course manager also gives teachers the ability to integrate their own documents as part of course curriculum, as well as content from the Internet, hundreds of thousands of books on the iBooks Store, over 750,000 materials from existing iTunes U collections, or any of the more than one million iOS apps available on the revolutionary App Store\u2120.
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\n<\/span>\u201ciPad is so much more than just a textbook or just a notepad for students\u2014it\u2019s a powerful educational tool, a study partner, a window into the past and a glimpse of the future,\u201d said Sophie Post, fourth grade history teacher at UK\u2019s Falkner House school. \u201cTeaching history was once a static timeline of events. In leveraging the entire educational ecosystem of iPad, creating my own iBooks Textbooks and iTunes U courses, and pulling in apps like History: Maps of the World, studying history has suddenly become a creative, dynamic and truly transformative experience for my pupils.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\n<\/span>Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.<\/p>\n