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Download full textFinlayson, Caitlin – Open Praxis, 2020
A growing body of research has demonstrated that open educational resources (OER) provide an opportunity for improvements in learning outcomes compared to traditional texts. This project builds on the Open Education Group's COUP framework to explore student and faculty use and perceptions of an open education World Regional Geography textbook.…
Descriptors: World Geography, Open Educational Resources, Textbooks, Blended Learning
Finlayson, Caitlin – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
As the rising cost of college textbooks has outpaced both inflation and increases in tuition fees, this expense has created a significant barrier to student learning. Some instructors have adopted or created open educational resources, meaning materials which are freely and openly available. While the most obvious benefit of open course content…
Descriptors: Textbook Publication, Teacher Developed Materials, Textbooks, Open Educational Resources
Direct linkScholz, Michael A.; Huynh, Niem Tu; Brysch, Carmen P.; Scholz, Ruojing Wang – Journal of Geography, 2014
Geography textbooks contain chapter or review questions that may engage students in spatial thinking. This research used Jo and Bednarz's (2009) "Taxonomy of Spatial Thinking" to evaluate the percentage of spatial thinking questions in four university-level world geography course textbooks. The results from this study were then…
Descriptors: World Geography, Textbooks, Spatial Ability, Content Analysis
Bagoly-Simo, Peter – Journal of Geography, 2013
Textbooks are an important tool for teaching and learning in high school geography classrooms. But what sort of picture do they provide of places that are different and distant from the countries in which they are published? This study explores this question through a concise analysis of a widely used American world geography textbook, with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World Geography, Textbooks, Social Change
Rees, Peter W.; Legates, Margaret – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2013
World regional geography textbooks rarely focus on the process of region formation, despite frequent calls to reincorporate a regional approach to teaching global geography. An instructional strategy using problem-based learning in a small honors section of a large world regional geography course is described. Using a hypothetical scenario…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Regions, Honors Curriculum, Undergraduate Students
Standish, Alex – Journal of Geography, 2008
This study set out to better understand the changing links between geography and citizenship. Content analysis was conducted on eighteen high school world geography textbooks and state/national standards. Interviews were conducted with teachers and textbook authors. Five significant changes were noted: decline of national orientation and a greater…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Textbooks, World Geography, National Standards
