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Download full textChadwell, Faye A.; Fisher, Dianna M. – Open Praxis, 2016
This article presents Oregon State University's experience launching an innovative Open Textbook initiative in spring 2014. The partners, Open Oregon State and the Oregon State University Libraries and Press, aimed to reduce the cost of course materials for students while ensuring the content created was peer-reviewed and employed multimedia…
Descriptors: Textbooks, State Universities, Shared Resources and Services, Course Content
Grobman, Arnold B. – 1976
A method of developing and improving curriculum exemplified by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) is described. BSCS is a self-governing, independent, nonprofit organization of biologists and teachers devoted to the improvement of biological education. This group is involved in an ongoing, continuous project with rotating personnel.…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Cooperative Planning, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedFrye, David – History Teacher, 1999
Describes an assignment in an undergraduate course on Roman history for junior and senior history majors in which students create their own 15-page textbook using primary sources. Explains how each class session developed student analysis of primary sources. (CMK)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Course Content, Higher Education, Historical Interpretation
Zumoff, Nancy; Schaufele, Christopher – 1996
This final report and appended conference proceedings describe activities of the Earth Math project, a 3-year effort at Kennesaw State University (Georgia) to broaden and disseminate the concept of Earth Algebra to precalculus and mathematics education courses. Major outcomes of the project were the draft of a precalculus textbook now being…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Algebra, Course Content, High Schools
Peer reviewedMathison, Charter Innes – Journal of Geological Education, 1989
Asks the course planner, text writer, teacher, or even the student to consider a series of questions about Earth processes such as how, why, and where the process occurs and why is it important. Provides a guide for the coverage of a topic to ensure that nothing is overlooked. (Author/MVL)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Content Analysis, Course Content, Course Organization
Peer reviewedMosback, Gerald – ELT Journal, 1990
Explores the development and application of syllabus and textbook design principles in the creation and use of an English-as-a-Second Language textbook that completely replaced the use of a structurally based course in Sri Lankan schools. Course components, the structural and functional syllabus, testing problems, and materials team training are…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Chiou, Guey-Fa; Wu, Cheng-Chi – 1996
A computer curriculum guideline for Taiwan junior high schools was announced in 1994 and will be nationally implemented in 1998. Due to the specific educational system in Taiwan, the guideline will affect computer textbook writing, computer teaching and learning, computer teachers' professional development, and computer education research. This…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Uses in Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development
