{"id":264,"date":"2019-09-24T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/?p=264"},"modified":"2019-09-24T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:24:49","slug":"abandoning-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/2019\/09\/24\/abandoning-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoning Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I prep a new course, I always prickle at choosing a textbook and teaching from a textbook. No book has ever covered what I like the way I want it to be covered. Usually, after I teach a course for a semester, I toss the book out the window, and develop my own curriculum from various online and primary sources. However, I don&#8217;t always need to re-invent the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soc-anth\/meet\/holly-dunsworth\/\">Dr. Holly Dunsworth<\/a> has always been extremely kind and generous by sharing her text-less <a href=\"https:\/\/ecodevoevo.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/this-years-textbook-free-human-origins.html\">Human Origins and Evolution Syllabus<\/a>. This is a fantastic resource, and it has given me lots of inspiration for abandoning my textbook next semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I prep a new course, I always prickle at choosing a textbook and teaching from a textbook. No book has ever covered what I like the way I want it to be covered. Usually, after I teach a course for a semester, I toss the book out the window, and develop my own curriculum &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/2019\/09\/24\/abandoning-textbooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abandoning Textbooks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11838,391200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-teaching-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}