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Title:
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FLAWS OF THE ONLINE TEXTBOOK IN HIGHER EDUCATION |
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Author(s):
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Jeannette Dixon |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-83-6 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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V II, 2 |
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Keywords:
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Online textbook in higher education; online teaching; course management; Hurricane Katrina and teaching;
Textbooks/Colleges and universities. |
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Type:
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Reflection Paper |
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First Page:
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221 |
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Last Page:
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224 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper examines how an instructor taught a course with a textbook that was augmented with online text and course
materials. It is taken from a larger qualitative study of nine professors from across the United States who used the same
resources to teach a graduate level course in counseling psychology (Dixon, 2007). All of the participants had adopted
the online version of the textbook with the expectation of offering the students its rich array of resources. However, for a
variety of reasons, the majority of the instructors were not able to use those resources fully: instructors and students
resisted learning new software; instructors were required to create a second website for their courses in campus-wide
course management systems; instructors lacked experience teaching online; and every student did not have access to the
Internet at home. This paper focuses on one instructor who taught at a university in New Orleans who had to contend
with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Although he was very experienced in teaching with technology, he adapted his
methods to the students needs. In addition to lack of home Internet access, many had strongly negative attitudes toward
online courses. Though he was the most experienced instructor in hybrid and online teaching in the study, he abandoned
the online textbook in favor of more traditional methods of teaching. |
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