Modular, Modifiable Content Enables Teachers to Replace Expensive, One-Size Fits All Textbooks - Except in the Humanities

How I Use It

I am using CK-12 Science/Social Science Content to build bilingual digital textbooks for use by Chinese high school students preparing for American Advanced Placement Exams. Specifically, we are downloading CK-12 modules and combining them in an epub format that students access through a free E-Reading Platform (Zo-Reader). Into Zo Reader we have loaded an English-Chinese pop-up dictionary that enables students to click on any word in the text to get its English pronunciation, Chinese translation and the ability to generate vocabulary flashcards for independent study.. Replacing expensive, hard to understand all English AP textbooks, CK-12 flexbooks provide English language support not only to students but to their Chinese subject-area AP teachers for whom English-only teaching can be difficult and frustrating.