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by Shuters House

Digital publishing and eLearning

Here at Shuters, we have embraced the many challenges and opportunities afforded by digital publishing, to re-look at our existing product offerings.
These include the exciting animated foundation phase products we have created, the interactive activities we have loaded into our ebooks and the large number of platforms we are now able to distribute our content on.
Because digital publishing / e-learning is still a very new experience to most learners, parents and teachers we have decided to help you get a feel for the digital learning experience by giving everyone a 1-year free license to two of our learner’s books :

Life Sciences Grade 10

Download Life Sciences Grade 10

Natural Science & Technology Grade 6

Download Natural Science & Technology Grade 6

In addition to this, we have made all our educational books available for a 2 day free trial period, so that you can get a chance to try out the exciting material we have on offer.

With all the different types of interactive electronic devices available today, you need to be able to experience our eBooks on the device that you already own, this is why  our eduReader app is available on both Android and iOS (iPads and iPhones) and soon to be released on windows.

To get your free licenses you will have to :

Step 1 : Download the Shuters eduReader for Android (eg: Lenovo, Samsung etc tablets) and iOS (iPads and iPhones)

Step 2 : Create your Shuters account at online.shuters.com

Step 3 : Click the buy button on the two promotional books (Life Sciences Grade 10 & Natural Science & Technology 1 year licenses) from our website online.shuters.com.

Step 4 : Check out. (no credit card or payment information needed)

Step 5 : In the eduReader you downloaded earlier, simply login navigate to the Licenses tab and download your two books.

 * These promotional books are only available with our eduReader application.

by Shuters House

Behind the scenes at Shuters e-learning

Behind the scenes at Shuters House

By now, many of you will be familiar with Shuters’ innovative e-learning material. But what exactly goes into creating an e-book? We spoke to Shuters’ interactive media expert, Francois Marais:

How does Shuters go about creating their e-books?

The process starts with our publishing department. Their knowledge of the books helps to identify content which is best suited to interactivity. Our e-learning department then carefully researches, storyboards and develops the content to create engaging media for both learner and teacher.

We also do a number of quality checks to make sure that the interactions are up to our high quality standards. When the media is approved it is placed into our e-books and made available for purchase from our online store.

Does this mean that you just change the books into a PDF or similar format?

No. We take pride in being more that just paper behind glass! All books bought from the Shuters e-store come with many additional features.

So what else do you do to make your e-books so special?

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Simply put, it’s our additional content. We have spent a lot of time developing the extra media. We can then enhance our books with animated media, video and audio clips and photo galleries.

This means that the learner can grasp and explore even the most difficult concepts in a new and fun way.
Our additional tools that help users include a calculator, dictionary, notes, bookmarks, drawing tools and a conversion tool.

At Shuters we realise that not everybody learns at the same speed. This is why our media can be paused, restarted and progressed at the learners’ or the teacher’s pace.

Our handy helpline offers support to all customers who are using our Shuters e-products. We think it is really important not only to provide amazing content, but to help teachers, parents and learners through the transition to this new way of teaching and learning.

We are not just selling you a book, we are selling you a service.

Where do you see e-books going in the future?

E-books are the future, and technology will only get better and better. This will help us to provide great learning experiences. We will keep innovating to bring you a cutting-edge product. Free upgrades will be available to all our customers during our development period. Remember, here at Shuter & Shooter publishers we are committed to empowering our nation through education.