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NCF 2005 and its offshoot textbooks have come under different forms of reviews in the press. [6] Its draft document was criticized by the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE). [7] In February 2008, Krishna Kumar, then the director of NCERT, also discussed the challenges faced by the document in an interview. [8]
Those who wish to adopt the textbooks are required to send a request to NCERT, upon which soft copies of the books are received. The material is press-ready and may be printed by paying a 5% royalty, and by acknowledging NCERT. [11] The textbooks are in color-print and are among the least expensive books in Indian book stores. [11]
Open textbooks are flexible in ways that traditional textbooks are not, [66] which gives instructors more freedom to use them in the way that best meets their instructional needs. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] One common frustration with traditional textbooks is the frequency of new editions, which force the instructor to modify the curriculum to the new book.
A digital textbook is a digital book or e-book intended to serve as the text for a class. Digital textbooks may also be known as e-textbooks or e-texts. Digital textbooks are a major component of technology-based education reform. They may serve as the texts for a traditional face-to-face class, an online course or degree, or massive open ...
NCERT had announced its decision to erase certain chapters on the Mughal Empire from class 12 history textbooks to which the BJP party and many of its politicians like Kapil Mishra have welcomed the move to eliminate part of the Mughal history from course books. This move of erasing Mughal history from syllabus attracted severe criticism from ...
Balbharati is publishing integrated textbooks for Class I to Class VII. In this type of textbook all subjects are included in one book and that book is split into 4 parts according to unit tests. This decision was taken from the academic year 2023–24 to reduce load of school bags of students.
"The expense of textbooks is a concern for students, and e-textbooks, address the face of the issue, Williams says " As publishers we understand the high cost of these materials, and the electronic format permit us diminish the general expense of our content to the market". [34]
Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010. Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.