Development of a 3-D Interactive Mineralogy Textbook

地质学(42)这个项目创建了一本矿物学教科书，通过呈现符合现代学习理论的材料，对学生来说是容易理解和相关的。这些章节与一张以学生主动学习为重点的光盘整合在一起。每一幅文字插图都是以彩色3D复制的，包括动画、互动练习和作者的叙述。随附的第二张光盘提供了一个包罗万象的矿物学数据库，可用于矿物鉴定、晶体结构的电影、光学性质等。文本的部分及其动画将被纳入DLESE，并提供元标记，用于直接搜索和浏览大部分材料。这本教科书反映了两位作者在工业领域的经验以及他们在地球科学、科学教育、行星科学和材料科学方面的多年教学经验。这本教科书涉及了从科学教师到地质学家，从更广泛的地球科学到与化学、物理、数学和生物等相关学科的联系的各种学生观点。这个项目涉及芒特霍利奥克学院和爱达荷大学的作者之间的合作。爱达荷大学的教育工作者正在进行评估。塔萨图形艺术公司正在制作插图和CD-ROM。要求提供支助，以促进编写一本低成本的教科书，其中包括最先进的教学方法和计算机动画，供学生在地球科学和科学教育方案中使用。这本教科书结合了创新的方法(如使用螺旋和归纳学习，以及概念图)，这些方法有可能提高科学教师的准备质量，增加该领域教科书的多样性，并提供将技术整合到地球科学和相关课程中。该项目由美国国家科学基金会地球科学局地球科学部提供重要的共同资助，以认识到这一创新教科书和附带的光盘对本科生和教职员工的重要性。

Geology (42)This project creates a Mineralogy textbook that is accessible and relevant to students by presenting the material in accord with modern learning theory. The chapters are integrated with a CD-ROM focused on active learning by students. Every text illustration is reproduced in color 3-D and includes animations, interactive exercises, and narration by the authors. A second accompanying CD-ROM provides an all-inclusive mineralogical database that can be used for mineral identification, movies of crystal structures, optical properties, etc. Sections of the text and its animations will be incorporated into DLESE, with metatags provided for direct searching and browsing of much of the material. The textbook reflects the experience of both authors' in industry and their years of teaching geoscience, science education, planetary science, and materials science. The textbook addresses a diversity of student perspectives ranging from science teachers to geologists, across the broader earth sciences, to connections with cognate disciplines like chemistry, physics, mathematics, and biology. This project involves collaboration among authors at Mount Holyoke College and the University of Idaho. Educators at the University of Idaho are performing evaluations. Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc. is producing the illustrations and the CD-ROMs. Support is requested to facilitate production of a low-cost textbook that incorporates state-of-the-art pedagogy and computer animation that may be used by students in the geosciences as well as science education programs. The textbook incorporates innovative methods (such as the use of spiral and inductive learning, as well as concept maps) that have the potential for improving the quality of science teacher preparation, adding diversity to the textbooks in this field, and providing for integration of technology into earth science and related curricula.Significant co-funding of this project is being provided by the Division of Earth Sciences in the NSF Directorate for Geosciences in recognition of the importance that this innovative textbook and accompanying CD-ROM has for undergraduate students and faculty.