ZyBooks

zyBooks: Interactive Textbook Platforms

Interactive textbook platform for STEM subjects, increasing student engagement and preparation with participatory learning features

What is ZyBooks?

zyBooks is an interactive e-textbook platform designed for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subjects in higher education. It provides digital textbooks with integrated simulations, animations, and challenge activities to promote student engagement and preparation before class.

Key features of zyBooks include:

• Interactive tutorials and challenges embedded directly within the textbook pages to reinforce concepts
• Automatically graded challenge activities that provide students with immediate feedback on their work
• Built-in animations, simulations, and authoring activities to explain complex concepts in an interactive way
• A student progress dashboard so instructors can identify concepts students are struggling with
• Autograded zyLabs that prepare students for programming assignments by allowing them to write and test code right in the e-textbook
• Instructor customization options to tailor book content to their course

zyBooks aims to increase student participation through these hands-on features in order to improve learning outcomes. Research studies have found zyBooks to increase student engagement, exam performance, and pass rates compared to non-interactive textbooks.

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