Student Reactions to Using Interactive Tutorials as Part of the proPIC Study Programme

This chapter outlines the use of interactive textbooks or tutorials in the form of iBooks that were developed as a major output of the proPIC project. All of these iBooks can also be retrieved on the accompanying project website. Interactive textbooks or tutorials are documents, software, or other media digitally created for the purpose of (interactively) presenting any kind of content and can further comprise a wide variety of tasks for the reader. This chapter focuses on so-called iBooks, a distinct form of e-books available exclusively for the Mac Operating System (OS -- by Apple). After providing some background information on the project and e-books in a wider context, the chapter focuses on illustrating and exemplifying the iBooks that were created in the proPIC project. Moreover, it presents and discusses some of the student reactions to using the eight iBooks, as well as subsequent practical implications of using such digital tools effectively in teacher education. [For the complete volume, "Promoting Professionalism, Innovation and Transnational Collaboration: A New Approach to Foreign Language Teacher Education," see ED624249.]