Electronic supplements to high school physics textbooks

Abstract

The concept of traditional physics textbooks has remained essentially unchanged since the 19th century, and progress can be seen more in the technical aspect due to new printing possibilities, richer use of pictorial material, multi-colour printing, etc. However, that further developments is inevitably be influenced by the current ability to produce teaching materials in electronic form. This raises the need to address the interrelationship between the new means of presenting learning and printed textbooks. The problem is not so much the creation of electronic materials, but their distribution tied directly to the paper textbook. The implementation of ED in current high school textbooks can be seen as an experiment with which neither the authors nor the textbook publisher had enough experience, and some conceptual issues might require more discussion. In this paper, we summarize our experience with the development of electronic supplements to physics textbooks in recent years.