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Virginia M. Tucker; Camille A. Charette – Open Praxis, 2025
Ensuring that an OER textbook provides exceptional learning experiences and accessibility requires rigorous stages of writing, expert peer reviews, and user testing. In this OER research project, the objectives were to provide a scholarly textbook for a Master in Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree program that reflected current…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Textbook Standards, Open Educational Resources, Peer Evaluation
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Aydin, Abdullah; Aytekin, Cahit – International Education Studies, 2018
It has been determined that the drawings, photographs and pictures related to the subject of the continuity of the tangent function on page 68 of the Ministry of National Education's twelfth-grade mathematics textbook contradict principles 1, 7 and 10 of Yanpar's (2007) teaching material development principles. According to these principles,…
Descriptors: Material Development, Instructional Materials, Educational Principles, Design Requirements
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Usta, Necla Dönmez; Güntepe, Ebru Turan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
With the developments in information and communication technologies, books which are fundamental information sources for students throughout their education and training process are being transformed into electronic book (e-book) formats. E-books provide interactive environments, and they are also updateable materials, which shows that, in time,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Material Development, Models
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Milligan, Lizzi O.; Clegg, John; Tikly, Leon – Comparative Education, 2016
This article puts forward the argument for language supportive learning for learners in English medium instruction (EMI) classrooms based on the findings from a mixed methods study in Rwanda. The article first reviews the relevant literature and research which looks at the concept of language support, focusing on textbooks and pedagogy in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ruo, Du; Xiaotang, Yang – Open Praxis, 2013
E-books seem to be a trend and an excellent solution for mobile learning lately, but what kinds of e-books are good fit for distance learners' needs? For the purpose of offering open, more appropriate, better in quality, more convenient and flexible learning materials for distance learners. From 2011, through an experimental study on the basis of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Learning
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Sutherland, LeeAnn M. – Elementary School Journal, 2008
This article describes an approach to developing student reading materials that support middle school learners in a project-based, inquiry curriculum for grades 6 through 8. Reading materials are designed to encourage sense making beyond the classroom, as students read and write about science as it takes place in a classroom and as it occurs in…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Middle Schools, Science Course Improvement Projects, Material Development