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Some of you may be familiar with CSDMS, the Community Sediment Dynamics Modeling System. (full disclosure: I am currently chair of the Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group). We are working to gather free online materials related to modeling of surface processes (models, animations, lectures and texts on modeling) to make them available for teaching purposes. The texts and lectures are currently primarily at the graduate level, but we hope to expand this. Materials are here: http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Products We welcome participation in the Education and Knowlege Transfer Working Group; please consider participating: http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/EKT Thanks! Karen Campbell Education Director National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics St. Anthony Falls Laboratory 2 Third Ave SE Minneapolis, MN 55414 612.626.6166 [log in to unmask] www.nced.umn.edu http://home.safl.umn.edu/kcampbell/index.html On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Brett Gilley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ralph, > > > > The Connexions site (http://cnx.org/ ) is developing open source content > modules that users can organize into “books”. > > > > There is not too much there for geology though (yet). > > > > Cheers, > > > > Brett > > > > From: GEOEDUCATION RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julie Libarkin > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 9:11 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Is there an open, online college intro to geology text? > > > > This site has a list of free textbooks. They are copyrighted, so have usage > policies, but they are free and digital: > > > > http://oerconsortium.org/copyrighted-digital-textbooks/ > > > > Julie Libarkin > Associate Professor, Director - Geocognition Research Lab > Michigan State University > 206 Natural Science > East Lansing, MI 48824 > > Affiliations: Department of Geological Sciences, Division of Science and > Mathematics Education, Cognitive Science Program, Center for Research on > College Science Teaching and Learning > > Phone: 517-355-8369 > https://www.msu.edu/~libarkin > Editor for Production, Journal of Geoscience Education > > > > On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Dawes, Ralph wrote: > > Julie and Others, > There is a big push, for example in California, for “digital textbooks.” One > reason is to save money – they are supposed to be a lot less expensive than > paper textbooks. > > Another reason is to take advantage of the Web for pooling and sharing human > knowledge. Taking it all the way to the open source end-member, some groups > are advocating completely free materials for learning being made available > on the Web. California, its public schools, its government, and some of its > digital entrepreneurs, have been pushing for and even passing laws for > this. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=open-source-textbooks-mixed-bag-california. > This seems mostly directed at high schools, or grades 6-12. > > My question is, has anybody seen a college-level open source “digital > textbook?” One that is free and open access? > > Thank you. > > --Ralph > > > > Dr. Ralph Dawes > Earth Sciences > Wenatchee Valley College > 1300 Fifth Street > Wenatchee, WA 98801 > (509) 682-6754 > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > > > >