Last spring we began meeting with faculty from the freshman seminar program at ACU called Cornerstone about the possibility of publishing our own electronic textbook. This week we shared the result of that work when Cornerstone 2013 went live on the iBookstore.
The book is the product of several months of planning, writing, and editing before we brought the content into iBooks Author for final designs.
Cliff Barbarick and Karen Cukrowski worked with me on editing chapter submissions and then beginning to think about how to incorporate interactive media elements. Nathan Driskell put in many hours to bring the design to this level of maturity this quickly and was also a huge help in thinking through how to integrate media assets into a book that needed to emphasize strong writing and reasoning.
A remarkable first effort that we’re really proud to share with students next week.