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Kim Kenville featured in Transportation Research Board publication

The Transportation Research Board Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) featured Kim Kenville, Professor of Aviation, and her use of an ACRP Guidebook which she adopted last fall as an Open Education Resource for her Aviation 402 classes. She also received a grant through the UND OER Program at the Chester Fritz Library.

Within the academic aviation world, good textbooks can be hard to come by, Kenville said. “Not only do few aviation textbook publishers exist, but the aviation industry is constantly changing.”

The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program’s latest Impacts on Practice brief, ACRP in the Classroom: Reimagining the Textbook at the University of North Dakota Department of Aviation, details how Kenville uses ACRP Research Report 16, Second Edition: Guidebook for Managing Small Airports, in her classes.

“This publication is just so consumable, useable, and the information is in chunks that fit perfectly into hourly type lectures. (The) students … can learn more and find things easily,” Kenville said.