디지털패러다임에 따른 서책 교과서의 새로운 디자인 방향 연구

Abstract

As the digital era begins, the digital textbooks are getting a lot of attention in the world of Korean education system. The Ministry of Education introduced the smart learning in 2011 as well as announced that it would change all the current textbooks of all the school subjects into 'the digital textbooks' until the year 2015. It means that the period of digital textbook development and the textbooks for the Revised 7th Curriculum overlap for a while. In other words, the textbooks in process of development are put into the digital forms immediately―designs of the textbooks not prepared for the digital system is put into the digital forms. Hereupon, I made a judgement that the textbooks should have got new designs fitting to the digital textbook environment and suggested necessity of the new textbook designs in accordance with it. Furthermore, I conducted a survey on the fonts, format and size, and image directions to improve visual learning efficiency while using digital media. The survey showed that Gothic fonts are fitting to the textbooks preparing the digital textbooks than Ming fonts, known as the most readable fonts; although there has been only one format for existing textbooks, students get accustomed to landscape format as well for changes of the digital environment, so it is also required to make a layout for landscape format of the new textbooks; exact and concrete images to communicate information graphics fit digital textbooks better than illustrations.