Apple revealed three updates to their products Thursday during an education announcement at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, according to national media outlets.
The company aims to reinvent the textbook with iBooks 2, an application with new features such as more educational content, random pop-quizzes to keep students on their toes and notecards on individual pages to prepare for finals.
Another application update is iTunes U, which was primarily used to deliver lectures to college students. The application now will offer full online courses from educational institutes such as Duke and Yale universities.
The final application revealed at the announcement, iBooks Author, a free OSX program for creating books, is now available in Apple’s App Store. The program’s intent is for teachers to write materials for classes, but anyone can utilize its features. Writers easily can create glossaries and drag and drop photographs to their pages. If a Keynote presentation is added into a document, it will become an interactive widget.
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