Book Chapter: “Teaching Students to Critically Evaluate Textbooks”
The book chapter (full text) linked below is published in the book Teaching Students to Critically Evaluate Textbooks. The Open Organization Guide for Educators: Transformative Teaching and Learning for a Rapidly Changing World, Red Hat, 2019.
Title
Teaching Students to Critically Evaluate Textbooks
Authors
Christopher McHale
CUNY La Guardia Community College
Ian McDermott
CUNY La Guardia Community College
Steven Ovadia
CUNY La Guardia Community College
Source
via CUNY Academic Works
Abstract
This chapter is a case study describing how library faculty combined service learning and information literacy to help students evaluate textbooks, comparing commercial ones to Open Education Resources. The underlying idea was to give students not only a scholarly grounding that would help them as they move through their academic careers but also a practical vocational orientation to help them succeed in the workforce and, hopefully, become future contributors to the free culture movement.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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