TOWARDS AN INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOK USING FLASH 5: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE

In the following article Greg shares some of his work with Flash and getting students to interact with the material...The following article was born out of my efforts to prepare an electronic textbook suitable for General Chemistry. The effort to develop an electronic textbook was a response to the growing dissatisfaction of both the faculty and students over the textbooks we, in the department, had been using. We could not find a single textbook that would support all the different teaching styles. The students were relying more and more on classroom lectures and were using the textbooks more for the exercises available at the end of each chapter.