Effect of in-app components,medium, and screen size of electronic textbooks on reading performance,behavior, and perception

Although many app-based textbooks are available for students, reading have not been thoroughly outlined. This study aimed to understand how changes from paper to electronic textbooks have affected the academic reading task, investigate student users’ perceptions of in-app components and screen sizes, and identify issues affecting in-app components and task requirements. A mixed factorial design experiment was employed. Results showed that there were no significant changes in comprehension and time spent reading between print text and the iPad. Yet, student highlighting, notetaking, and reading behavior and perception significantly changed based on condition. In addition, students struggled to use in-app components and found them frustrating especially when accounting for sentence splitting. The findings presented can assist in understanding the changes in student reading behavior, which can be used to improve interface design of future e-textbooks.     

生物工程学科教材建设的实践与成效

华南理工大学生物工程学科的教师,在进行学科建设和教学改革的过程中,充分认识到教材建设的必要性与重要性,十分注重本学科的教材建设.本学科编写的教材数量大,涉及的课程范围广,教材内容新颖、科学性强、系统性好、先进性突出,出版的教材颇具特色.本学科教材建设对促进专业课程改革和学科发展,对推动教学改革,提高教学质量和学生素质等方面,发挥了积极作用并取得显著的成效.目前,本学科教材建设正向更高水平和更广范围开展.     

《马克思主义基本原理概论》课程教材体系的构建

加强《马克思主义基本原理概论》课程的教材建设是贯彻、落实＂05方案＂的重要保证。因此,构建能够较全面、准确地反映马克思主义基本理论体系的教材体系成为当前马克思主义理论研究和教学的一个重要任务和目标。通过对现行教材中存在的问题分析,提出改进性的意见。     

高职液压教材需作重大改进

本文从高职教育发展和液压课程改革两方面分析了高职液压教材改进的必要性,并提出高职液压教材应从增加液压新知识,减少液压元件原理文字描述、增加示意图,增加液压元件与液压系统的简单故障诊断知识,减少公式推导、回路性能特性分析及液压系统设计等方面进行改进。     

中日两国部分画法几何(图学)教材之比较

通过对中日两国部分图学教材内容，特点的分析、比较，阐述了图学教育的目的和改革的必要性，提出了对今后图学教材建设的理论研究和实践探索的必要性。     

When Static Media Promote Active Learning: Annotated Illustrations Versus Narrated Animations in Multimedia Instruction.

In 4 experiments, students received a lesson consisting of computer-based animation and narration or a lesson consisting of paper-based static diagrams and text. The lessons used the same words and graphics in the paper-based and computer-based versions to explain the process of lightning formation (Experiment 1), how a toilet tank works (Experiment 2), how ocean waves work (Experiment 3), and how a car's braking system works (Experiment 4). On subsequent retention and transfer tests, the paper group performed significantly better than the computer group on 4 of 8 comparisons, and there was no significant difference on the rest. These results support the static media hypothesis, in which static illustrations with printed text reduce extraneous processing and promote germane processing as compared with narrated animations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

高职教育中石化专业专业课的教学思考

高职教育中石化专业专业课承担着更多的学生技能和素质培养的任务,教学中必须重视和突出实践性原则,加强教材改革,强化专业理论知识,培养精良的“双师型”师资队伍,利用专业课对学生职业能力培养。     

The image of women in psychology textbooks.

In an analysis of the content of ten recently published textbooks in psychology, the author concludes that most textbooks contain the implication that psychologists are male by using language and illustrations reinforcing this suggestion, and by citing women authors less frequently than their number and eminence would suggest. Experiments and studies reported in psychology textbooks frequently fail to indicate sex of subjects or, alternatively, are based on male samples. The results of such studies are then frequently generalized to both sexes. The image of psychology as presented in textbooks is biased, therefore, toward the study of male behaviour by male psychologists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

通信类高职专业教材建设的研究与实践

文章基于现代通信企业岗位群的知识、能力和素质要求，运用高职教育理论和现代教育技术，着重对通信类高职专业教材建设的定位、教材体系的构建等进行了研究，提出通信类高职专业教材建设指导性意见。