25-02-2016, 03:14 PM
Abstract
We live in a knowledge-based information society where a new technology emerges overnight and new information is produced every day. Our current shift towards a more digital world has led to an inevitable increase in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. With the development of innovative technology, educational content, methods of teaching and learning, educational environments, and the roles of teachers and schools can be changed. However, despite numerous efforts to improve educational standards, school systems around the world are struggling to meet the demands of the 21st century learners and employers. Climate change has also affected education. Therefore, the need for learning – and the way people learn – is changing faster than before. The paradigm shift to a world of the 21st century learning is rooted in a set of goals for all learners. SMART education is a reativity focused, customized system for developing new ways to learn by using up-to-date technology like cloud computing, and enables students to study with various materials based on their aptitudes and intellectual levels using mobile Digital Textbook at anytime, anywhere and on any devices. This paper examines various ways of content development for digital textbook, service provision, and service delivery, and suggests the most suitable model in a cloud computing environment in order to propose a suitable service model for Digital Textbook in the cloud computing environment.
Introduction
The emergence of Digital Natives has led to changes in communication methods, forms of knowledge, and the ways in which collective intelligence is cultivated for social productivity. These radical changes in the environment are demanding reform in education. Similar to the way in which modern schooling systems had replaced agrarian education, to meet societal demands for a skilled labor force, our knowledge-based society also calls for changes in the education system. In short, there is a need for a radical paradigm shift from the present industrial approach to education to one that supports the rising knowledge-based information society [1]. With the growing demands of society and the increasing uses of technology in our daily lives, new generations of the 21st century will require an education system that attends to both needs. One strategy, that can lead this reform is SMART education. SMART education can be defined as an educational system that allows students to learn by using up-to-date technology and it enables students to study with various materials based on their aptitudes and intellectual levels. The difference between the current education system and SMART education is similar to the difference between regular cell phones and smart phones; while regular phones have programs and systems supplied by manufacturers, smart phones can be customized to meet the users’ needs. Current