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You may also be interested in Earthlabs -- online highschool level instruction focusing on a serious modern lab experience. Also from the folks at TERC: http://serc.carleton.edu/earthlabs/index.html If someone wants to collect the information string from this discussion and make a page for the Teacher Prep site -- I'd be happy to faciilitate that. Cathy On Jan 29, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Mark Chandler wrote: > I don't know if you're familiar with the Earth Education Toolbook > project. It is a collection of computer-based Earth science > activities or "chapters". These are immersive units developed by > teams of scientists and educators, and I think they are useful for > upper-level high school (with the right computer resources) and > undergraduate courses. > > Each chapter introduces one or more data sets or models, as well as > an analysis tool that enables users to explore some aspect of the > Earth system. You can read more about the offerings at the website: http://serc.carleton.edu/eet > > Shameless Pitch: > Check out the just released chapter on climate change and climate > modeling that we contributed to the EET: http://serc.carleton.edu/eet/envisioningclimatechange/index.html > > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Dawes, Ralph <[log in to unmask]> 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] > > > > > > > > > -- > Mark A. Chandler > Columbia University - NASA/GISS > 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 > Cell Phone (608) 445-0166 Cathryn A Manduca Director, Science Education Resource Center Executive Director, National Association of Geoscience Teachers Carleton College 1 N College Street Northfield, MN 55057 507 222 7096 [log in to unmask] serc.carleton.edu