Tuesday, November 29, 2011

A Panel of Students Comment on 'The Textbook'

Recently in London, a UK Publishers Association in partnership with the University of Greewich, held a one day conference entitled ‘Students at the Heart of the System: How to fulfill their learning needs?’.

A panel of students was afforded the opportunity to register their take on the academic 'textbook'. Note some comments and expectations voiced by the Student Forum:
"Too much information – students are often overwhelmed by the amount of information, across a variety of formats... Although access to information is important, the critical skills to analyse and filter are greatly in demand."
"There is an overwhelming need for information analysis skills."
"Most students recognised that a mixture of formats is necessary or even desirable."
"Students would love, shorter chapters, chapter summaries, key learning points, revision aids etc."
"Because of the cost of their education, students expect their learning resources to be made available by their institutions/ libraries – and think most of them should be free. They should also be available in any format they can."

Click on the post title to read the report published November 21, 2011 in the "Information Today: Europe Blog"
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Faculty Center Database





A database designed to help college faculty keep up to speed with the publishing world, course textbooks and resources in their respective subjects.
The Health sciences, medicine and nursing materials are all included.

Books are ranked according to their usage so that you can easily pin point "the cream of the crop".

In order to access you must register to become a member,
however membership is free for faculty and bookstores.
This website offers lots of other great stuff too such as publisher news and contacts, personal notebook and adoption list capabilites, etc.
Thanks to Dr. David Gantt for recommending this resource!

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