Sentences with phrase «open textbook as»

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It is not exactly textbook stuff, hunched over as he is with his bat an inch off his shoulder and his right leg open and his left foot pointing backward «almost like a duck's,» as he describes it.

Beside one is an open Bible; beside the other is a standard paleontology textbook — the message being, as it will be explained to me many times before I leave, that everyone's view of reality is inescapably colored and distorted by that person's «starting assumptions.»

«If you went back a few years and opened a textbook you'd see the classic hippocampal circuit that's been diagrammed for a hundred years, and you'd look at the subiculum and you'd see it labeled as one region, with one type of cell, doing one thing,» Cembrowski explains.

Unlike commercial textbooks (which can cost over $ 200 apiece), open source textbooks are able to undergo constant revision as new developments emerge.

But in February 2003, the local school board made a textbook decision, a decision that made the parents coalesce and moved them to action in a way that had not happened since the school opened in 1999: The board decided to eliminate math textbooks for middle schools as a cost - cutting measure.

A major middle - school math curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards today goes live for all to download, use, and adapt for free, in what will serve as a major test case as to whether open curriculum resources can truly compete with traditional textbook publishers.

As part of an undergraduate secondary science methods course, the university faculty member Brian Zoellner guided the preservice secondary education science methods teachers through the open textbook design, showing them flexible book options for adapting and building their own textbooks, as well as exploring options for differentiated instructioAs part of an undergraduate secondary science methods course, the university faculty member Brian Zoellner guided the preservice secondary education science methods teachers through the open textbook design, showing them flexible book options for adapting and building their own textbooks, as well as exploring options for differentiated instructioas well as exploring options for differentiated instructioas exploring options for differentiated instruction.

The U.S. DOE's National Education Technology Plans of 2010 and 2016 promoted the concept of using open educational resources, such as digital open textbooks, as being more dynamic and responsive to the context of the classroom over print - based textbooks, while also providing a significant cost savings to school districts.

In other news, 14 states have launched #GoOpen initiatives to support school districts as they transition to using open educational resources (openly licensed materials that educators can share, reuse, and adapt), and 31 districts have committed to replacing at least one traditional textbook with an open educational resource within the next year.

«Textbooks in higher - education are moving beyond the static dimension of the printed page and the book - under - glass e-books people are accustomed to,» said Kent Freeman, Chief Operating Officer, VitalSource Technologies, Inc. «As publishers create rich interactive learning experiences for institutions and students, they should be taking advantage of EPUB and the flexibility and benefits that the open industry standard affords.

Of course, the Kindle DX also opens wide opportunities for textbooks and such highly formatted books as cookbooks and profusely illustrated books).

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

The Bookseller conducted an interview with Flooved's founder, Hamish Brocklebank, who said, «We pivoted our business model back in December and dropped the publishers as we realised students no longer had to be so dependent on overpriced textbooks... Along the lines of the Open Access movement, we source our content directly from the world's best professors in maths and physics who share our vision that access to educational materials should be free.

But as the textbook publishers rethink their current materials to meet these standards and as those companies keep the material open in order to make upgrades, this would be a perfect time for England to also update its technology education standards by insisting on digital textbooks.

As massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to expand and online academic institutions gain more credibility, the education landscape is breaking away from long - time learning traditions — on - campus classrooms and printed textbooks — to provide alternatives.

This omission is intentional, as the framework for addressing and sharing objects is designed to facilitate many different workflows: exchanging Distributable Objects in an open textbook environment, integrating Distributable Objects into content and learning management systems, identifying components of an EPUB Publication for sale separately, and so on.

In 1980 she joined the History of Art Department at the Open University as a Lecturer working on groundbreaking courses there and publishing essays in the Modernity and Modernism textbooks, published jointly by the Open University and Yale University Press in 1993.

Although technology in legal research has been revolutionary, and although the commerical databases with case law and legislation and speciality databases such as Hein Online have opened up opportunities not available in print, there still remains a wealth of material that will not likely every be available online, including textbooks.

Chegg, a company best known as a textbook rental site, is partnering with Coursera to distribute its content to students enrolled in massive open online courses.