Thursday's Apple Education Event

From the Wall Street Journal (hat tip to Shawn King at The Loop):

While the notoriously secretive Apple remains mum about its education announcement Thursday at New York’s Guggenheim museum, the company is expected to unveil textbooks optimized for the iPad and that feature ways to interact with the content, as well as partnerships with publishers.

I’m really interested in seeing what Apple plans to do to help students. However, while it would be great to see tablet-optimized textbooks with interactive content, I fear such changes would result in more expensive texts that are updated less frequently.

Also, as pointed out on the recent TUAW Talkcast, would those interactive features hinder students who only have the printed versions? And would page numbers match up between print and eBook formats? What do you do with a book once the course is over?

There are a lot of questions. I’m hoping Apple and the publishers have the answers later this week.