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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2 teachers above give lengthy explanations of why textbooks are not necessary from *their* perspectives.

But the complaints here are about what the students need — a single, off-line, print resource that presents the full content of a course in a structured way.

The teachers seem oddly unconcerned with students’ needs.[/quote]

Why does this have to be in a book?  Why can't it be on the LMS? What is the obsession of having something that is in one's hand? If they want that..then download it and print![/quote]

There are a couple of reasons for having at least one textbook, that students and parents can use to study and review content.
 
1. textbooks are edited while a lot of content found on the web is not.  There's a lot of junk out there that finds its way onto online resources.
2. textbooks are designed by professional graphic designers.  There's a lot of ugly, badly designed content on the net that is not inviting or easy to read.
3. textbooks are great for reference, an efficient tool for students to review content in a coherent, organized form, using an index.

Nobody is suggesting that textbooks should be the only resource, or that they are the best resource. But having access to a textbook, either printed or downloadable, would help a lot of students and the parents who are trying to support them.[/quote]+1[/quote]

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