Temple U. Project Ditches Textbooks for Homemade Digital Alternatives – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout
Temple University gave 11 faculty members $1,000 each to create a digital alternative to a traditional textbook. The goal of this pilot project was to demonstrate the learning benefits of working with primary sources and other relevant materials and to also help students save money on textbooks.
Kristina M. Baumli, a lecturer in Temple’s English department offered the following summary of the project’s pedagogical benefits:
By requiring students to grapple with primary sources and find their own journal articles, she said, she could teach in a way that emphasized process rather than memorization of facts in a book.
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