The New Face of Digital Books in Genetic Learning: A Preliminary Development Study for Students' Critical Thinking

Abstract

The development of new teaching and learning material can help students to pre-pare the new 21st century relevant skills. One of the new teaching and learning materials was the interactive digital e-book named flipbook that became one solu-tion in genetics learning. This study aims to develop the preliminary interactive genetics flipbook design based Aurora 3D Animation Maker and Anchored In-struction learning models in Protein Synthesis material. This preliminary study was conducted at the Biology Education Study Program, IKIP Budi Utomo Ma-lang, Indonesia. The method used is the Thiagarajan development model. The re-sults showed that the interactive genetics flipbook based Aurora 3D Animation Maker and Anchored Instruction learning models were feasible to use in a genetic subject, especially to enhance students' critical thinking at the university level.