Despite the promises of e-textbooks, the wide-spread adoption by college students has yet to materialize. The customization of e-textbook support will facilitate the process, but it requires a better understanding of the differences among individual users in their adoption of e-textbooks. The main focus of this study is to examine the role of technology savvy in terms of ITrelated experiences, ...

Current textbooks are believed to provide an updated knowledge. Medical students usually read the textbooks but not the literature that contain the original research articles and reviews. Here, we examined the gap between the current textbooks and literature with the enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells as an example. A total of 70 textbooks that were published for medical education during the las...

There are numerous excellent textbooks that provide guidance on what and how to teach modelling, founded on sound principles (e.g., mathematics, domain analysis, object-orientation) and engineering practice. There is less guidance available on what and how not to teach modelling i.e., what principles to avoid conveying either directly or indirectly, and what engineering practices should be igno...

abstract the present  research seeks to pinpoint the deficiencies of compiling and writing textbooks, and also provide the needed standards for writing printed and electronic books in payame noor university. to achieve the said objectives, printed and electronic textbooks were studied and the problems regarding the principles of compiling and writing books have been recognized. the research is ...

Language is embedded in society and culture, and for that matter, learning a foreign language involves learning its culture. This paper is concerned with the inseparability of culture and language in foreign language teaching, arguing that culture introduction is an effective way to promote students’ cultural awareness and language proficiency. Foreign language textbooks are major channels for ...

Emily Martin’s (Signs J Women Cult Soc 16(31):485–501, 1991) article, ‘‘The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male–Female Roles,’’ was published in Signs over 20 years ago. In this groundbreaking article, she discusses how gender roles are often projected onto reproductive biology, leading to the portrayal of eggs as passive and sperm as active. We ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to report the results of a survey of pediatric dentistry post-doctoral program directors regarding education of post-doctoral students about management of caries in children 3 years-of-age or younger. METHODS Fifty-two pediatric dentistry advanced education program directors were sent questionnaires inquiring about payer sources in their programs, distrib...

This paper presents an analysis of how the geometry component of the National Curricula for mathematics in Japan and in one selected country of the UK, specifically Scotland, is interpreted by textbook writers. While, of course, textbooks are not the only critical influences on student learning, such texts, as analyses of data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMS...