The really strange thing is that there will likely be only a few of
these textbooks and they will be used for every course taught on the
planet. Presumably the best few or even the best one will surface and
beat the competition. Everyone will be taught the same generic core of
the topic. Both
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were surprised that education had not been
substantially influenced by the PC and the internet. Steve Jobs planned
to develop these books for free as a way to sell iPads. Now that Apple
has created a way for publishers to sell through the iTunes store and
protect their intellectual property, the authors and publishers have a
greater incentive to create these "books" than ever before. After
teaching undergrad statistics a few times, it became clear that
interactive models were the way to go. Here is a link to a set of them
that I
programmed using LiveCode:
http://www.learnpsychology.com/courses/statcourse/programs.htm
Now that Livecode has capability to save the programs as iOS and Android
apps, I plan to group them into a set and sell them as a single app
in the app store. If they do well then I will keep developing them.
I would like to work one up for the general linear model. Good old
Excel can actually be used for some interactive exercises.
Mike Williams
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