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A Sustainable Future For Open Textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge Story, John Hilton Iii, David Wiley
A Sustainable Future For Open Textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge Story, John Hilton Iii, David Wiley
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Many college students and their families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential solution; open source textbooks have also been explored. A company called Flat World Knowledge produces and gives away open source textbooks in a way they believe to be financially sustainable. This article reports an initial study of the financial sustainability of the Flat World Knowledge open source textbook model.
Multiple Intelligences In The Gospel Classroom, John Hilton Iii
Multiple Intelligences In The Gospel Classroom, John Hilton Iii
Faculty Publications
In a worldwide training broadcast, Elder W. Rolfe Kerr taught, “We cannot expect our students to learn all that we hope they will learn by just hearing a concept or principle one time. Multiple presentations, utilizing various approaches, often appealing to multiple senses, increase the likelihood of our students actually learning and internalizing the concepts we teach.”