An automatic method for assessing the teaching impact of books from online academic syllabi

Volume: 67, Issue: 12, Pages: 2993 - 3007
Published: Jun 1, 2015
Abstract
Scholars writing books that are widely used to support teaching in higher education may be undervalued because of a lack of evidence of teaching value. Although sales data may give credible evidence for textbooks, these data may poorly reflect educational uses of other types of books. As an alternative, this article proposes a method to search automatically for mentions of books in online academic course syllabi based on Bing searches for...
Paper Details
Title
An automatic method for assessing the teaching impact of books from online academic syllabi
Published Date
Jun 1, 2015
Volume
67
Issue
12
Pages
2993 - 3007
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