Integrating an open textbook into undergraduate teacher education
| Published | March 2011 |
| Conference | Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Mar 07, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA Edition 1, Volume 2011, Pages 2372-2378 |
| Publisher | Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) |
| Country | United States, North America |
ABSTRACT
As K12 schools move to open textbooks it becomes important that teacher preparation programs also begin to integrate this text format. This paper presented how an introductory educational technology undergraduate course began to integrate the use open textbooks and apply associated strategies including a getting to know your digital textbook and follow-up activities concerning integration that were used to familiarize students with this new classroom format of an old tool. The use of open textbooks provided a cost effective strategy as well as a preparatory activity for future classroom applications.| Keywords | electronic textbooks · K-12 · open textbooks · textbook legislation |
| Published at | Chesapeake, VA |
| ISSN | 978-1-880094-84-6 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | © 2011 AACE |
| URL | http://www.editlib.org/p/36663/ |
| Other information | SITE |
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