Sentences with phrase «as electronic textbooks»

Clark County's approach includes offering six models of blended learning, using a modular approach to program development and implementation, and leveraging technologies such as electronic textbooks and curriculum resources to alter instructional processes and improve efficiency and effectiveness.

I would divide distance education via the World Wide Web into three categories, each of which incorporates the previous category: The Web can be used as an electronic textbook to disseminate information for users to read (my own personal Web site is a good example); as an electronic textbook with quizzes, which also fosters interactions between the user and the machine, typically in the form of multiple - choice or true / false tests; and as an electronic conference, which goes beyond the electronic textbook to foster interactions between users and teachers.

ECTACO JETBOOK COLOR - reader is positioned as an electronic textbook.

It will be running on a customized version of Windows CE with a user interface that has been designed specifically for use in schools as an electronic textbook.

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Entire textbooks are devoted to each style, although many titles such as «Day Trade Online» or «How to Get Started in Electronic Day Trading» are unclear about what type of trading they espouse.

The questions have been typed up from inside the OCR textbook as no electronic copy was available.

The homework booklet questions have been sourced from the end of Chapter questions within the OCR textbook and typed up as no electronic copy was available.

This is end of Module 2 Assessment which has been typed up from inside the OCR textbook as there was no electronic version available.

Publisher - provided electronic versions of selected textbooks contain additional resources, such as video clips, text - to - speech, auto - graded practice tests, and valuable support material.

With the help of Vail's ongoing professional development, Beyond Textbooks partners are trained on: the philosophy and practices of the Beyond Textbooks framework; effective implementation strategies; and the technical facilitation of the Beyond Textbooks electronic delivery system (including how to access all of Vail's digital curriculum calendars, unwrapped documents, formative assessments, and teacher created resources that are congruent to selected essential standards, as well as how to contribute to the digital resources that are accessible to all Vail and Beyond Textbooks partner teachers).

The fundamental issues remain similar (e.g., teachers or textbooks as drivers of the curriculum, student challenges when using text in courses, cost of books); however, the advent of new technologies, like electronic text (e-text) and reading devices (e-readers) have added more complexity to the discussion.

This understanding is overdue and will become increasingly important as governments push to make the textbook an electronic resource within classrooms.

Furthermore there are no used e-books, where as at least a second hand market has sprung up around textbooks and one can often even rent at cheaper prices than a electronic texts (though of course the publishers of have attempted to quash this with their endless rehashed and reshuffled textbooks).

as i understood it, they are working with the chinese government to make some kinda electronic textbooks?

As digital textbooks gain popularity around the country, there are still parts of the U.S. and other industrialized nations that do not currently benefit from the obvious advantages of e-reading in academic arenas, which is odd considering that even the textbook publishers are in support of electronic educational content as a cost saving measurAs digital textbooks gain popularity around the country, there are still parts of the U.S. and other industrialized nations that do not currently benefit from the obvious advantages of e-reading in academic arenas, which is odd considering that even the textbook publishers are in support of electronic educational content as a cost saving measuras a cost saving measure.

But as long as the interface of the Kindle DX is inaccessible to the blind — denying blind students access to electronic textbooks or the advanced features available to read and annotate them — it is our position that no university should consider this device to be a viable e-book solution for its students.»

• College students prefer printed textbooks to eBooks as they help students to concentrate on the subject matter at hand; electronic display devices such as tablet PCs tempt students to distraction.

Many are pointing to e-books as the greener choice, a handful of universities are already embracing pilot programs for electronic textbooks, and we've even seen politicians brandishing the Kindle as a symbol of sustainable education.

There is, I would argue, a general consensus among both information providers and information users that the electronic storage and online retrieval of large amounts of legal information, is inherently more efficient and, as Ted Tjaden points out in his posting this week, an increasing number of previously print - only monographs, treatises, and textbooks now coexist in both print and electronic formats.

As Pearson — along with the entire textbook publishing industry — rethinks its role in education, one of the company's executives says it could look to build the core competencies of digital content creators like video game giant Electronic Arts.