Apple is bringing tablet education to India through its iTunes Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager. Apple has just expanded the availability of its iTunes Textbooks to 51 countries and the availability of iTunes Course U Manager to 70 countries. With the expansion of its iTunes Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager, Apple hopes to sell more tablets in more countries in the education sector.
Apple iTunes Textbooks are modernized textbooks that offer a glorious full screen textbook experience that is complete with interactive animations, 3D diagrams, photo galleries, tap-to-play videos and more modern features that are not possible on the regular text books. In the iTunes Textbooks, there are nearly 25,000 educational titles created by either independent publishers, teachers or leading publications.
The iTunes U Course Manager application, which is free on the iOS App store, makes way for educators to quickly and easily share their knowledge and resources directly with their class or to a global audience on iTunes U. From the student’s perspective, with this free application, one can access the world’s largest online catalogue of free educational content from top schools, leading universities and prominent institutions. Using the iTunes U Course manager, teachers can 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.