Bottom-up database design is a difficult task for novice database designers and is particularly challenging to teach. To address the problem, two methods—textbook and cookbook—have been suggested. The textbook method describes the Codd’s normalization algorithm and data model visualization adopted by most textbooks. The cookbook method illustrates a simple and straightforward normalization algo...

To help along the analysis and design of nonlinear control systems the NONLINCON package, an acronym for Nonlinear Control, was developed. This note addresses the usefulness of symbolic computation, and of the NONLINCON package in particular, for the symbolic analysis and design of nonlinear control systems. The symbolic computation program MAPLE is used as computing substratum. Textbook proble...

taking into account last innovations in the French educational system concerning textbooks and educational resources, this text provides an overview of current research streams in France in the textbook field. It discusses the specific context in France and the implications of this context towards research and textbook situation. After discussing some projects, Emmanuelle databank, and methodol...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the new version of Iranian EFL junior high school textbook (Prospect1) from the teachers’ perspectives. The participants included90experienced English teachers (42 females and 48 males) randomly selected from different junior high schools in different districts of Gilan province, Iran. The evaluation of the textbook was conducted quantitatively through a 5-...

Within the paper we present real remote experiment “Free fall of a body in a glass tube”. The experiment is based on the movement of a permanent magnet in a glass tube with induction pick up coils for position measurement. The paper also shows the possibilities of implementation of this experiment to direct educational process as a part of new strategy of education – Integrated eLearning (INTe-...

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 ...