Changing the English textbook of the first grade junior high school at Iran’s public schools after 27 years has sparked researchers’ interests in conducting evaluations of the new English textbook to get insights into its strengths and weaknesses. In line with this trend, this study aimed at evaluating the new textbook (Prospect 1) from teachers’ perspectives. To attain this objective, 30 junio...

The digital transformation of institutions renovates universities to strengthen the integration educational technologies with a focus on quality learning. Our objective is analyze needs students determine essential indicators be used in design textbook soft skills, measure approval by specialists and concordance criteria expectations students. sample consisted 60 university 8 technical speciali...

Teaching Java is more challenging than teaching C++ or C, since instructors must at least survey various bundled and closely-related toolkits, beginning with the JDK API; for example, Swing, AWT, JDBC, JAXP, and the internationalization and collections frameworks, among others. Students of Java must learn when and how to leverage them; no one whose first instinct would be to implement a parser ...

This paper presents a case-study of automatic construction of a hypertext from a large full-text document. The document we used as input of the automatic authoring process is a well-known textbook of Information Retrieval (IR). We explain in detail the steps performed to transform the textbook into a hyper-textbook. A hyper-textbook is the hypertextual equivalent of a textbook, in the same way ...

Although perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are two important factors which could directly influence the acceptance of technology and actual usage for digital textbook, less attention has been paid to children’s mobile digital textbook usage. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate and empirically validate the perceived usefulness and the perceived ease of use by elem...

among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. the wealth of published material for english language teaching (elt) available in the mark...

The purpose of this article was to review published research literature about the publishing process and the roles of participants in this process in the textbook publishing industry in the USA. The contents of books, collected works, reports and journal articles were analysed, and summaries of the contents were then organised chronologically to present a commentary on this topic. The results s...

This is the comprehensive textbook about experience-based co-design (EBCD). It explores the underlying concepts of EBCD and provides a thorough guide to the methods and practices of EBCD illustrated by a detailed case study of an EBCD project with head and neck cancer patients, carers and staff in an acute hospital in the south of England. It includes a chapter on evaluating patient experience ...

As hypertext systems become widely available and their popularity increases, attention has turned to converting existing textual documents into hypertextual form. An important issue in this area is the fully automatic production of hypertext for learning, teaching, training, or self-referencing. Although many studies have addressed the problem of producing hy-per-books, either manually or semi-...

Taking the example of an innovative textbook on algorithm design, we illustrate the problems to be faced in scientific electronic publishing within the context of open educational environments. The issues to be considered are in particular design considerations as well as what kind of media types and document formats should be incorporated. In the main section of this paper, the textbook's prod...