The Web-revolution in publishing and reading is rapidly increasing the volume of online textbooks. Nowadays, for most of the subjects, a selection of online textbooks is available. Such an abundance leads to an interesting opportunity: if a student does not like how a primary textbook presents a particular topic s/he can always access its alternative (e.g. more detailed or advanced) presentatio...

High-quality textbooks and learning materials are especially important for school children, but school textbooks may contain incorrect health information. The objective of this study was to review the findings of analytical studies about the contents of textbooks used in elementary, junior high, or high schools. Of 450 studies we screened, we reviewed 14 that met the inclusion criteria, and sum...

Introduction. A legislative mandate to adopt digital textbooks in Florida provides an opportunity to identify concerns school librarians have regarding digital textbook implementation. Method. The stages of concern questionnaire was used to identify stages of concern among Florida school librarians about their potential role in this implementation. Analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to ...

With the use of smart mobile devices, learning opportunities have been greatly increased in education. Especially, digital textbooks are the new primary digital instructional resource for elementary and middle schools. The use of electronic textbooks in a mobile learning environment assists collaborative learning and increases access to educational resources. Learners are now able to share thei...

Textbooks and Research Journals Conventional wisdom holds that marketing textbooks are based on established marketing concepts. Readers assume that the contents of these books reliably summarize research findings to provide foundational information for students. In what is assumed to be a virtuous and reciprocal relationship, knowledge is generated in research, published in journal articles, an...

AIM To evaluate the structure of the anatomy program in the first year medical curriculum of University of Split School of Medicine by comparing it with the recommendations by the Educational Affairs Committee of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) and the Terminologia Anatomica (TA); we also quantitatively evaluated the organization of teaching material in contemporary topog...

imported instructional english textbooks in iran and the learners’ attitudes towards english. further, the instructors’ awareness of these ideologies was examined through a questionnaire. to find the ideological values, a content analysis of conversations, texts, and  pictorial prompts in spectrum and true to life english textbook series was conducted and the extant ideologies were categorized ...