It is easy to be sympathetic to students who because of the greed, vanity, and corruption of the people who make and assign textbooks must spend inordinate amounts for worthless tomes stuffed full of unnecessary graphics and obeisances to political correctness of one sort or another… but they are not so oppressed that this is [...]
Exprima Media and its textbook publisher partners have begun their tentative (but inevitable) portage of pedagogy onto mobile platforms. As our products become more robust and more useful, the implications for the US college student are easy to imagine. However, there is a wider set of possibilities worth considering – those surrounding the [...]
In his excellent book New Physical Ideas Are Here Needed, Art Bardige posits a view of textbooks and pedagogical media that deeply resonates with our mission at Exprima Media.
Exprima Media and publishers Wiley & Sons are teaming up to bring you MapQuiz, an iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad app. Think you know all the countries of Africa? Know where Andorra is? Can you locate Malta? Test your knowledge and beat your own high score on Wiley’s MapQuiz. [...]
This seems like the very definition of the one place where we often find we must “continue in our pursuit” despite the presence of invisible, real, and threatening monsters: the public restroom. So what magic have we prepared to protect us in this place? Some of our most cutting-edge technologies arose in the public restroom: interactive gesture. Where was the fist place you encountered a technological interface that responded to physical movement without direct touch? The bathroom.
The transition from hand-scribed manuscripts to printed books was marked by a quarter-century interaction design lag. This stretch of the 15th century is known for the production of incunabula – printed books lacking the interface design advancements that have since become standard navigational features of book user experience such as page numbering, the table of contents, punctuation, and footnotes.
In an effort to learn more about the nascent impact of the internet on various aspects of daily life, I’ve been looking into early predictions of the web.
While designing software is our bread and butter, ultimately we are in the interface trade. More specifically, we produce computer-human interfaces. At first, the computer hardware that housed our software creations was solely the personal computer. Now, we (and our interface-designing colleagues) are now designing computer-human interfaces for new hardwares – for [...]
I see some real potential for textbooks and students. It’s hard to tell at this point, but it looks like the actual iBook app on the just-announced iPad is not particularly geared toward research-type reading – annotation, notes, integrated multimedia – but then again, maybe it is. Either way, a well-made eTextbook app [...]
Quizr: Now You Know is an iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad app for study and self-quizzing. Want to study and test yourself on any topic anytime, anywhere? Exprima’s Quizr is a handheld tutor and test bank. The app will be available soon featuring content from the nation’s largest textbook publishers and [...]
Our latest apps augment traditional textbook content delivery by transforming publisher assets into educational experiences. We believe that students learn better when they have the ability to explore and experience educational content, not just ingest, memorize and cram. Our user-oriented apps are customizable to any academic level and for any platform (web, iPhone, iPad, Android, [...]