Electronic textbooks for ukrainian education: Statistics, models of development, quality problems

81. Zhenchenko M., Melnyk O., Prykhoda Y., Zhenchenko I. Experience of Use of Electronic Educational Resources by Ukrainian Teachers During the Distance Learning due to the COVID-19 Pandemic (March-May 2020). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 2022. Vol. 31-04. P. 55-65, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3104/

The article provides the result of scientific research on developing electronic textbooks (e-textbooks) for Ukrainian schoolсhildren. The aim of this empirical research was to compare e-textbooks development in 2018 and 2019, found out the major players in the Ukrainian e-textbook market for general secondary education institutions, the level of e-textbooks’ provision in primary, middle and high schools, subjects that are most popular among Ukrainian e-textbooks publishers.
It was found out that the number of e-textbooks publishers has grown from 5 in 2018 to 9 in 2019, the largest number of e-textbooks for schoolchildren were developed for the 1st grade students (19 e-textbooks), the least number for the 11th grade students (2 e-textbooks). It was developed the most e-textbooks in the subjects “I explore the world” and “Mathematics” for the 1st grade (7 and 5 respectively).
The study identified and described two e-textbooks development models of Ukrainian publishers (outsourcing and standalone) and the platforms they used. An outsourcing model was used by 6 publishers, a standalone one used by 2 ones; 19 e-textbooks were produced using the first model; 27 e-textbooks were developed using the last one. Two of the publishers developed e-textbooks
using both models. The most popular platforms for e-textbooks developing were the platform of the Multimedia Publishing House Rozumnyky (14 e-textbooks) and the mozaBook Editor program of the Hungarian company Mozaik Education (15 e-textbooks).
It was outlined some quality problems of developed e-textbooks and suggested the directions for further improvement of e-textbooks.