Developing Design Principles for Digital Textbooks in Korea

Developing Design Principles for Digital Textbooks in Korea

In Korea, digital textbooks has been developed from the 3rd grade to the 5th grade, and 7th grade primarily for the subject matters of Science, and Social Studies since 2013, and then been applied to schools since 2014. The purpose of this study was to develop the design principles for digital textbooks in Korea. The study employed the Delphi technique. The thirty experts answered questionnaires in three rounds. This study concluded that the design principles for digital textbook consist of 4 design principles domains and 17 questions. This study suggests that the design principles for digital textbooks need to be established based upon the integration of technology development with content design. Further research should be needed to identify the problems and challenges which may potentially occur during the design and development processes of digital textbooks.