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Glenn,
OK, will do. Thank you for letting me know of your interest.
--Ralph
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Simonelli [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:24 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Creating a Geology 101 Digital Textbook as an Open Educational Resource
I would be interested in contributing. Please keep me in the loop.
Regards,
Glenn Simonelli
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Dawes, Ralph <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Care to contribute to an open educational resource for introducing
> college students to physical geology? In other words, help write and
> edit a free and open online textbook for Geology 101?
>
>
>
> You have probably heard about open educational resources. Besides
> being easily found on the Web, the key criteria for an open
> educational resource
> (OER) are that it:
>
> 1. Is free of charge.
>
> 2. Is copyrighted for free use (or free with attribution),
> including use in altered, edited, and excerpted forms.
>
> 3. Requires no login, registration, or user information to be accessed.
>
>
>
> If enough of us get together and create an open Geology 101 textbook
> online, we can leverage (1) each other's experience in teaching
> introductory geology, (2) each other's content knowledge from our
> earth science research backgrounds, and (3) each other's pedagogical
> knowledge from up-to-date educational research, in order to
> group-source, as they say, a high-quality digital textbook.
>
>
>
> Once it is available to the world at large, we can keep improving the
> digital textbook with future edits and revisions as it gets perused,
> used, and commented upon.
>
>
>
> The next common questions might be: What's in it for me? Don't people
> write textbooks, which can take years of effort, at least partly for a
> profit motive? Yes, there is a lot to be said for traditional
> textbooks, including letting the publishers provide editing,
> image-making artwork, publicity, printing, and shipping; letting the
> academic marketplace filter textbooks by purchasing more of those with
> the desired qualities; and in the end rewarding those who write good-quality textbooks and get them published.
>
>
>
> However, in spite of the questions we may raise about the
> nebulous-seeming enterprise of open educational resources, and the
> benefits of traditional for-profit textbooks, OER textbooks are going
> to happen. In my view, the best way for an open, online, digital
> textbook for Geology 101 to happen is for those of us who care most
> about having students be introduced to geology properly at the college level be the ones who create it.
>
>
>
> That is why I am asking you to join me in this endeavor. At this
> point, it is just an inquiry on my part. If several of you express
> interest, we can go ahead and set up a wiki to work together, agree on
> the editing controls, and go from there until the digital text
> creation and editing site is up, online, and its contents being
> composed by us, presumably sometime during 2011. There are no deadlines.
>
>
>
> By the way, if we spot some grant requests for proposals that the
> Geology
> 101 OER textbook might be suitable for, we should consider applying,
> as there will be some aspects of the work that a grant could help us
> deal with more efficiently. But regardless of whether we do this as a
> bootstrapped, from-the-grassroots, on-our-own-time side project, or
> whether we find some support along the way, the two key words are open
> and educational. In my view, only those who have a sense of urgency
> about wanting to do this should step forward and get involved in helping to make this happen.
>
>
>
> In the meantime, all inquiries and comments are welcome. Thank you.
>
>
>
> --Ralph
>
>
>
> Ralph Dawes, Ph.D.
> Earth Sciences
> Wenatchee Valley College
> 1300 Fifth Street
> Wenatchee, WA 98801
> (509) 682-6754
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
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Dr. Glenn Simonelli
Assistant Professor of Education
Satterlee Hall 216
SUNY Potsdam
Potsdam, NY 13676
315-267-3345
My home page: http://www2.potsdam.edu/simonega
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