The PPLVR Online Living Textbook
Principles and Practice of Low Vision Rehabilitation (PPLVR) has been created to be an educational resource on low vision as well as build an international learning community so that professionals and students can interact and learn from each other. It is an online living textbook that makes it possible to standardize the low vision curriculum for self-learners and for schools to offer the full curriculum without incurring the cost of additional specialized faculty.
Like visiting professorship programs do now, this interactive, multimedia, online living textbook can bring the world's experts and best teachers into every classroom and to every practicing professional seeking continuing education. Unlike conventional textbooks that are more structurally rigid, the living textbook's "chapters", otherwise known as online courses, present the lessons in a progressive and integrated fashion, covering each topic in depth, while enabling the student to review earlier preparatory lessons when working on mastering the more advanced concepts in the later chapters.
The living textbook is created by 41 highly recognized and respected authors. Upon completion, it will have 32 chapters divided into 3 sections:
The living textbook is created by 41 highly recognized and respected authors. Upon completion, it will have 32 chapters divided into 3 sections:
- Basic Science of Low Vision Rehabilitation
- Clinical Principles of Low Vision Rehabilitation
- Practical Low Vision Rehabilitation
It also offers practicing professionals the opportunity to fill a hole in their education at their own pace, on their own schedule, at a significant cost savings, with the same depth of knowledge that is offered in an academic course of study.
The PPLVR is produced and published by Emerald Education Systems, a company with unique experience and position in the low vision field. But, the living textbook concept is not limited to low vision, it extends to all fields and all levels of education. It is a revolutionary use of the internet to provide schools, companies and individuals with a powerful and cost effective new educational resource.
The PPLVR living textbook offers a series of continuing education courses that are currently available online and accessible 24/7/365. New chapters will continue to be produced and released periodically until the entire textbook is finished in 2011.
