Up to the recent past, Textbook Boards were the only institutions in Pakistan that had the mandate to develop textbooks for both government and private schools affiliated with public examination bodies of the country. These boards have been working under their respective provincial governments. This situation developed a culture of using a single-textbook in schools across the country. However,...

This paper will present a case study of e-textbooks usage in a 3,000 student, liberal arts college in Western New York, USA. Focus groups were conducted and a summary of results will be presented. Among the key questions are: Are e-books being used? What factors are considered in choosing an e-book over a traditional printed textbook? Is comprehension from an e-book the same as from a printed t...

In this paper, the authors discuss their continuing work on a NSF TUES Phase 1 project in which they are exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of a scalable concept map as an organizational tool for a digital textbook. This tool, termed the Adaptive Map, is designed to promote students’ conceptual understanding by using an expert-generated concept map as an advance organizer. Because larg...

Textbooks play a crucial role in English language teaching and learning. One of the methods for selecting the most appropriate textbook for a particular educational purpose is comparing two or several similar textbooks with each other. Textbook evaluation can provide useful information about the strengths and weaknesses of textbooks and can lead to the selection of the most suitable materials f...

The present qualitative research, for the first time, aimed at comparing and contrasting the extent cultural components and subcomponents are represented in the elementary levels of A Course in General Persian and Top Notch Series as foreign language teaching textbooks. The adapted checklist of Lee's Big ‘C' and little ‘c' cultural components (2009) was used for the current study.  After conten...

Previous editions of this book were well received by both the students and gynsecologists for whom they were meant. The present edition shows a vast improvement in the details of the matters dealt with previously as well as in the inclusion of the recent developments of the subject. Few textbooks contain a better or more exact description of the anatomy of the female genitalia than what is give...

professor working in an institution hoary with the best traditions of scientific medicine. Recent works on such important subjects like ' Erythroblastosis Fcetalis'?Penicillin Therapy, etc., have been incorporated for the benefit of students going up for examinations. At the same time the usual paraphernalia of a textbook of obstetrics, viz, the description of the mechanism of labeur, discussio...