According to what I heard today from the local representative
of Thomson publishing company, the Serway's textbooks
(both the algebra and the calculus based versions) will be
available electronically in Spring of 2002. This was sort of
an unofficial information from a salesperson.
Those who teach over the Internet, using either WebCT of
Blackboard, will be able to receive the "ready to go" course
content and modify it, if desired. The cost of all this will be
in the price of the book, not very different from the current
cost. A bank of quiz questions will be available for each
Chapter.
I am sharing what I heard today at an information session
at our university. Materials are developed for those who
practice "distance education" or for those supplement
traditional face-to-face teaching with electronic contents.
Are other popular physics textbooks going to be available
in the same way? Please, share what you know.
Ludwik Kowalski
P.S.
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