This book is uniquely flexible, as discussed in the next section. This flexibility allows teachers to tailor it to their specific focuses without having to assemble a lot of outside readings. To support teachers taking advantage of this flexibility, there are truly extensive support materials, such as PowerPoint presentations that are full lectures for each chapter and module and transparency masters for every figure and table in the book. A Different Design to Give Teachers More Flexibility Business Data Communications and Networking is not designed like most textbooks, which are intended to be covered in their entirety during a course.
Traditional textbooks make it difficult for teachers to include material of their own emphasis.
Teachers have to cut out material in chapters to make room for other material, and this cutting out is rarely clean. Then, teachers have to assemble additional material to cover concepts on which they wish to focus. In contrast, Business Data Communications and Networking has 12 core chapters of moderate size that cover key networking concepts. Covering these core chapters will still leave a week or two in most courses to cover additional material. More detailed information in each chapter, furthermore, is covered in well-defined Boxes .