Inquiry
Activities that prompt students to question, apply and integrate what they've read, not just receive it.
CourseBook™ Learn The Way You Live
CourseBook™ is EDGE's supercharged content solution.
A printed textbook presents content. An eBook is the same content in electronic form. CourseBook™ goes further: Content brought to life in a mobile-friendly learning experience, with interactions, quizzes, and video, all built to align with a module's learning outcomes, supported by analytics.
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Built on Alignment
Sound curriculum design is built on alignment between learning outcomes, the content and learning experiences students are exposed to, and the assessments used to evaluate their achievement.
That alignment has to hold at every level, from a single unit through to the qualification as a whole:
- unit-level outcomes should support title or module-level outcomes, and
- module-level outcomes should contribute to the qualification’s exit-level outcomes.
CourseBook™ supports the content side of that alignment, with structured outcomes documentation that helps institutions review how a title’s content and learning activities relate to clearly stated learning outcomes.
CourseBook™ solves the content corner of that triangle, and comes with the outcomes documentation to prove it.
How Content Is Designed
Alignment isn’t just structural, every CourseBook™ title is shaped by a consistent set of publishing and learning design principles, applied at the content level:
Social learning
Content designed to support discussion, collaboration, and learning with and from others.
Structured progression
Content sequenced so each unit builds toward the module's outcomes, rather than presenting material in isolation.
Evidence-informed craft
Content built using established instructional-design practice - chunking, worked examples, and formative assessment embedded throughout.
Outcomes Documentation
Every CourseBook™ title is supported by a CourseBook™ Outline that shows how the title is structured, including its learning outcomes, unit structure, content coverage, videos, interactions, quizzes and other digital learning features.
When an institution adopts CourseBook™ titles as part of a broader programme design process, EDGE's Programme Accelerator can extend this into accreditable Module Outlines licensed as part of a Programme Package. These resources draw on prescribed CourseBook™ content and are designed for the institution's own academics to review, refine and take ownership of before submission.
What's Inside a CourseBook™ Title
- Locally relevant content, structured around what a student needs to learn
- Interactions, quizzes and applied activities that build understanding, not just present it
- Video, used deliberately where it strengthens learning, not decoration
- A mobile-ready reading experience, so students can learn wherever they are
- Real engagement analytics, visibility into how students are actually progressing, not just assumptions about it
Get the EDGE
CourseBook™ is built to give institutions a genuine operating advantage, not just better-looking content:
- Support student engagement and retention
- Reduce development time and internal workload
- Deliver programmes faster
- Maintain academic quality at scale
- Support hybrid, distance and contact delivery modes
Modes: Contact / Campus · Distance / Home · Hybrid
Also Available in Print
Every digital CourseBook™ title is also available in print format — the same outcomes-aligned content, without the interactive layer, for institutions or students who need it. See the full range of subject areas and formats in the Catalogue.
Common Questions
Is CourseBook™ the same as a printed textbook?
No, but it's related. CourseBook™ can be printed — with its interactions and multimedia stripped out through EDGE's digital publishing ecosystem — but even then, it's still built from the same outcomes-aligned, interactive source architecture. A traditional printed textbook was never built that way to begin with; a printed CourseBook™ carries that architecture with it, even in print.
Is CourseBook™ an eBook?
No. An eBook is a textbook converted into electronic form — the same static content, just on a screen. CourseBook™ is built from the outset as an interactive learning tool: it includes quizzes, applied activities, video and engagement analytics, and it's designed to align directly with a module's stated learning outcomes, not simply to reproduce a printed page digitally.
Is CourseBook™ a learning management system?
No. A learning management system hosts and administers a course — enrolment, assessment submission, grading and institutional records. CourseBook™ is the content students use within that course. It works alongside an institution's LMS rather than replacing it, and doesn't handle assessment, certification or institutional record-keeping.
Does one CourseBook™ title cover a whole qualification?
No. A CourseBook™ title corresponds to a single module, the same relationship a prescribed textbook has always had to a single module of study. A full programme is built from multiple titles brought together, which is what EDGE's Programme Accelerator service and Catalogue support.
What does "outcomes-aligned" mean in practice?
It means the content in a CourseBook™ title is developed around clearly stated learning outcomes. Each CourseBook™ Outline shows how the title is structured, including its unit-level learning outcomes, content coverage, videos, interactions, quizzes and other digital learning features. This gives institutions a clear basis for reviewing how the title supports their own module, programme or prescribed-material requirements, while leaving institutional curriculum, assessment and academic autonomy within the institution.