Creating the interactive e-book, the candidate teachers' thoughts and experiences about the e-book use in the future

The aim of this study is to determine the pre-service teachers' experiences in the process of developing interactive e-books and their views on future interactive e-book usage situations. The study group consisted of 16 pre-service teachers who took Material Design and Use in Education course in 2017-2018 period and participated in the study voluntarily. The pre-service teacher in the study group were informed about the application of interactive e-book and the production stages of the interactive e-book. Pre-service teachers were asked to develop and use interactive e-books as a project assignment within the scope of Special Teaching Methods course in the semester of 2018-2019 academic year. After the pre-service teachers develop and used interactive e-books, all the stages of the study were completed and the opinions of the pre-service teachers about the interactive e-books were collected with a structured interview form. The data obtained from these forms were examined in detail. According to the findings, most of the pre-service teachers stated that they would use interactive e-books in their courses when they were appointed. They stated that the biggest difficulty encountered in developing interactive e-books was that they attracted alienation to the application and the most boring aspect was to produce a meticulous design. In addition, pre-service teachers think that the most entertaining aspect of preparing interactive e-books is to do something useful and original for students and that the lessons using interactive e-books are interesting. At the same time, pre-service teachers think that pedagogy courses, where written and oral expression are intense, are suitable for using interactive e-books and interactive e-books will be more useful in these courses. Key Words material design and use in education, interactive e-book, enriched e-book, project based learning