Open Source, E-Textbooks, Traditional Texts… oh my!
September 29th, 2009
What exactly are open source textbooks? How are they different than e-textbooks? How do both compare to traditional texts? The Education Commission for the States has a nice new report out that compares open source to e-textbooks, and looks at initiatives in states that are adopting either or both.
I’ve been a proponent of the [...]
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Motivation and Textbooks
July 31st, 2009
Who uses textbooks? Do students actually read the text? A study out in Teaching Educational Psychology by Derryberry & Wininger looked at the relationship between student motivation and textbook selection and use.
The authors combine a group of measures to create a group of “internal motivation” measures, including need for cognition (enjoying effortful thinking), mastery goal [...]
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