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GEOED-RESEARCH  November 2010

GEOED-RESEARCH November 2010

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Re: Creating a Geology 101 Digital Textbook as an Open Educational Resource

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Paul Grogger <[log in to unmask]>

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GEOEDUCATION RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:24:37 -0700

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Having retired recently I have the time to energetically work
with you and others on such an interesting project. The use of
field investigation that are local as well as anywhere else
would be especially useful to those who will use the final
version of our collaboration.

Paul

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:22:27 -0800
  "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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