Specificity of editorial and publishing training electronic textbooks for the New Ukrainian School

The article is based on the analysis of ten electronic textbooks for the first grade of the New Ukrainian Schools. It was put to the competition by the publishers and presented in the electronic library of the Institute for the Modernization of the Content of Education (four textbooks «I am exploring the world», three textbooks in art, two electronic and one electronic textbook, textbook «Ukrainian Language. ABC Book. Parts 1 and 2») two models of the editorial and publishing preparation of projects of multimedia interactive electronic textbooks are defined and described. The first is «outsourcing model» which means involvement a technology company or multimedia publishing house in the creating of electronic textbooks. The second is «standalone model» which means independent creation of multimedia electronic textbooks by specialists of traditional publishing who use the specialized third-party software. It’s concluded that the market for interactive multimedia electronic textbooks can develop in several directions: more publishers of printed textbooks enter the market (in case if technological platforms that are available for Ukrainian publishers on the criterion «price – quality» and software for interactive programming will be provided) or filling of the niche of this market by tech companies and digital multimedia publishers (the main example is multimedia publishing house «Розумники» («A Clever Ones»)).

Peer-Reviewer Round Table Response to Ted Riecken’s Scholarly Podcast, “Mapping the Fit Between Research and Multimedia: A podcast exploration of the place of multimedia within / as scholarship”

Beginning with the question of blind peer review in the shifting landscape of multimedia publishing, and concluding with reflections on knowledge-creation in today’s academic culture, Riecken, Leggo, and Paré respond to Riecken’s podcast-article and reflect on the challenges of multimedia and other non-traditional forms of scholarship for the academy and for scholarly communication. Leggo and Paré were the peer reviewers for Riecken’s article, which is part of this same issue and can be listened to here: http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/9061. Since they hail from the same vicinity, they convened an author-peer reviewer round-table discussion on the issues raised in writing and reviewing a multimedia article. We are pleased to share their conversation.