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Moskovitz, Cary – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2023
Visual elements such as graphs, tables, and diagrams are essential components of scientific writing. Although scientific writing textbooks and guides often contain information on how to design such visuals, little has been written on how to effectively discuss those visuals within the text. This article offers a novel heuristic for teaching…
Descriptors: Science Education, Textbooks, Textbook Preparation, Technical Writing
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George, Alex M. – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2019
The article narrates a personal journey of learning and unlearning the images in school textbooks, its uses potentials and challenges as experienced by the author. It reflects upon the experiences of the process of selection of these images within the context of political science as a discipline. These experiences have been formed over a decade…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Preparation, Visual Aids, Political Science
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Rutkowski, Pawel; Mostowski, Piotr – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This article describes the project of producing Polish Sign Language (PJM) translations of a series of Polish primary-school textbooks. We discuss the multimedia software application that presents the resulting bilingual textbooks, which allows video clips to be played back by clicking on the corresponding original Polish text. We also explain the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Polish, Sign Language, Textbooks
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Blaauw, Jan – Educational Practice and Theory, 2017
History textbooks in contemporary democracies have often been exposed to censorship and other forms of interference. This article presents the idea of a classification of these forms as a novel way to contemplate the ambivalent relationship between democratic authority and historical instruction. The model primarily distinguishes official forms of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Censorship
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Chadwell, 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
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Rhodes, Ashley E.; Rozell, Timothy G. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2015
Electronic textbooks, or e-texts, will have an increasingly important role in college science courses within the next few years due to the rising costs of traditional texts and the increasing availability of software allowing instructors to create their own e-text. However, few guidelines exist in the literature to aid instructors in the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Undergraduate Study, Physiology, Electronic Publishing
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Dali, Ning – English Language Teaching, 2017
The increase of international exchange in education triggers strong demand for learning English language skills in various academic disciplines among Chinese students, which brings up a wide implementation of EAP (English for academic purposes) learning in universities in China. However, the teaching and learning result do not seem to be as…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Ma, Yuanyuan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
As a kind of teaching system, the credit system is constructed according to the elective system. It is benefit for improving teaching in implementing credit system. There are still some constraints during the transition from the academic year system to the credit one. In this paper, we shall first briefly introduce the bottleneck of credit system.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
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Rossman, Allan; Utts, Jessica – Journal of Statistics Education, 2014
This article offers a transcript of author Allan Rossman's interview with Jessica Utts, Professor and Chair of Statistics at the University of California-Irvine. Utts is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a recipient of a Founders Award from ASA. Additionally, she has been elected as President of ASA for the year 2016. The…
Descriptors: Interviews, Statistics, College Faculty, College Mathematics
Phillips, Michelle; St. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2013
In 2009, the National Science Foundation funded the "Dynabook: A Digital Resource and Preservice Model for Developing TPCK" project through its Discovery Research K-12 program. Dynabook project leaders and the National Science Foundation (NSF) recognized that digital textbooks would soon be a primary instructional resource, and seized…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Engineering, Research and Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Wang, Lixia; Chang, Zhongxin – Higher Education Studies, 2011
Accounting staff play a more and more important role in enterprises and the ability to handle tax related business is one of the necessary abilities of accounting staff. At present, some problems exist in system setting, content teaching, textbook construction, teaching method and so on of tax law course in institutions of higher learning. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Taxes, Higher Education
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Davis, Ivan – Composition Studies, 2012
This article reassesses the Fred Newton Scott and Joseph Villiers Denney collaborative textbook authorship by emphasizing Denney's generally overlooked contributions to that coauthorship and to the field of composition generally. Through an examination of Denney's scholarly work and his personal correspondence with Scott during the period marking…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Writing (Composition), Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Sheinkin, Steve – Language Arts, 2009
In this article, the author reflects on his work as a textbook writer. Given that knowledge is memorable when it is related to engaging stories, the author wonders if it is possible to turn the history of our great nation into such tales to motivate children's learning. Attempts to make his textbook writing more vivid, however, are met with a…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Textbooks, Censorship, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Jobrack, Beverlee – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
Educational reforms and standards have been a topic of public debate for decades, with the latest go-round being the State Common Core Curriculum Standards. But time and again those reforms have failed, and each set of standards, no matter how new and different, has had little impact on improving student achievement. Why? The textbooks. Textbooks…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Core Curriculum, Textbooks, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gray, Peter – Teaching History, 2011
Peter Gray explains how his Year 12 students came to research and write a resource on the history of Zambia, for history teachers "in" Zambia. The construction of the resource stretched the Year 12 students in new ways: the Internet was useless and there were no easy digests in A-Level textbooks to get them started. They would have to…
Descriptors: Textbooks, African Culture, Foreign Countries, History Instruction
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