The electronic platforms for the interactive e-textbooks publishers: an evaluation study

The study aims to review the electronic & digital platforms of some foreign publishers that offer university interactive electronic textbooks through interactive electronic or digital platforms under various names launched by the publishers to apply this technology, for example McGraw-Hill under the name of Connect, and Pearson under the name of MyLab & Mastering, and Cengage under the name of MindTap, in addition to identifying the set of characteristics and advantages that each of these electronic & digital platforms provides for both the academic staff and the student, in addition to reviewing and explaining the criteria for evaluating educational platforms for interactive e-textbooks for publishers through a tool called Rubric for eLearning Tool Evaluation, which is an assessment tool designed to evaluate e-learning tools and digital platforms with the aim of clarifying the strengths and weaknesses, and to identify the capabilities of these electronic & digital platforms and highlight the differences between them in order to support decision-makers in the academic libraries in knowing the capabilities of electronic platforms that provide interactive university e-textbooks and the benefit of the supply departments of academic libraries when deciding the use of these platforms.