Digital Books For Educational Communication Farida Febriati 1 , Citra Rosalyn Anwar 2 , Apriliyani afilyah Saba 3 {Ida.febriati@gmail.com 1 , citrarosalynanwar@gmail.com 2 } 1,2,3 Teknologi Pendidikan, Universitas Negeri Makassar. Makassar, Indonesia Abstract; The technology that moving so fast, forces every dimension of life to move quickly too, including in education process. The need for teaching materials as part of the teaching-learning process, which so far still refers to textbooks no longer attracts the attention of students. Even though there are online journals or websites, unverified articles are still the choice for students, because that showing fast in Search Engine. These conditions require creativity for lecturers. Communication of Education is one of the basic subjects of students to learn, but it has limitations face to face class because there are a lot materi. The ability of this flipbook-based digital book is considered the right choice because it not only offers text, but also images and videos, without internet connection. This article describes the process of student admission to a Flipbook-based digital book that was developed as a teaching material for Communication education Courses at Education Technology Study Program, Faculty of Education,University negeri Makassar. This article is a qualitative descriptive study, the main data source was obtained through in-depth interviews with several students based on Purposive techniques, questionnaires and direct observation in Communication Education class during the teaching and learning process. The results of the study showed the enthusiasm of students in using flipbook-based digital books as teaching materials for Communication Education courses. This is a new thing in the Educational Technology Study Program, students consider this flipbook-based digital book offers more convenience than ordinary textbooks, such as being easier to carry, there are tutorial videos, colorful sheets, images can be zoom and free. Keywords: Coomunication, Digital books, students, education. technology 1. Introduction Education Communication in the Study Program of Educational Technology, Faculty of Education Universitas negeri Makassar, so far it is quite difficult to get references as supporting material in the class. That is because the general reference as a major study communication, there is not speciality in educational communication. Whereas learning resources are important to facilitate the learning process (Dale in Sitepu 2014: 18). Education Communication class are compulsory courses given to new students in educational technology. Communication Education itself is actually a development of Communication Science. Communication skills are abilities that are needed by every human being, because there is almost no activity without communication. One Cannot can't communicate (Watzlawick). The ability to develop and use technology without being balanced by communication skills, will become an incomplete competency. Likewise, knowledge no matter how broad or deep a person's knowledge is if it is not balanced with the ability to communicated it, then that knowledge will not be accept to the public. Educational communication has a lot of material that is not all delivered in one semester meetings, this situation become encourages for researchers to develop teaching materials and package them in the form of digital books based on Flipbook. In era digitalization and the current phenomenon of students prefer to use gadgets in their daily activities rather than ICSTEE 2019, September 14-15, Makassar, Indonesia Copyright © 2019 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.14-9-2019.2290043