Collaborative Research: The Textbook Reconsidered - Creating the Shortbook of Geomorphology

协作研究：重新考虑教科书 - 创建地貌学简书

• 批准号: 0836983
• 负责人: David Montgomery
• 金额: $ 2.06万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0836983&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Textbook; Reconsidered; Creating

Geology (42) This project is creating and assessing a new style of textbook - an economical, succinct, and focused guide to the most important tenets of Geomorphology, the study of Earth's dynamic surface. This "Shortbook" is made up of 15 chapters, each 15 to 18 pages long, and each focused specifically on core concepts identified though a process of community consensus building. The goal of this book, and its accompanying public-domain e-media, is to organize and present the most important knowledge about Earth's surface in a concise fashion relevant to the way in which todays students deal with information. This project addresses a dynamic discipline of the geosciences and serves as a model for textbook creation in the STEM disciplines. The textbook is being designed, printed, and distributed by a commercial publisher and is linked to a public-domain website that hosts a suite of e-media, referred to as "Vignettes". These are short (1000 word) case studies that supplement the text and allow customization of the learning environment. Some vignettes are place-based examples; some are quantitative treatments of significant equations or problems in geomorphology; and others feature videos or animations that clarify difficult concepts. The vignettes are being created by experts, vetted by others, linked to the textbook, searchable on line, and available free, both on line and as PDF versions. The "Shortbook" concept comes from the recommendations of a 2006 NSF/National Academy of Sciences workshop, "Reconsidering the Textbook", which suggested that textbooks of the future would be short, economical, reflect community consensus, be student-centered, and be well and purposefully integrated with e-media. This project is testing the workshop recommendations by creating a new textbook in the growing discipline of geomorphology for which the existing texts were first published between 12 and 30 years ago. The assessment plan, which is integral to this proposal and the textbook development process is designed to improve the quality of the final product and determine whether the project has met its goal of creating a book that is widely accepted and useful for both students and faculty.

地质（42）该项目正在创建和评估一种新的教科书 - 经济，简洁且重点的指南，讲述地球动态表面的研究最重要的宗旨。这本“短簿”由15章组成，每章长15至18页，每个小书专门针对通过社区共识的过程确定的核心概念。这本书的目的及其随附的公共域电子媒体是以与当今学生处理信息的方式相关的方式来组织和介绍有关地球表面的最重要知识。该项目介绍了地球科学的动态学科，并作为在STEM学科中创建教科书的模型。该教科书是由商业出版商设计，打印和分发的，并链接到一个托管E-Media套件的公共域网站，称为“ Vignettes”。这些是简短（1000个单词）的案例研究，可以补充文本并允许自定义学习环境。一些小插曲是基于地方的示例。有些是对地貌学方面或问题问题的定量处理。其他人则具有阐明困难概念的视频或动画。这些小插图是由专家创建的，由其他人审查，链接到教科书，可在线搜索，并在线上和PDF版本免费提供。 “简报”概念来自2006年NSF/国家科学院研讨会的建议，“重新考虑教科书”，这表明未来的教科书将是简短的，经济的，经济的，反映社区的共识，以学生为中心，并与E-Media进行良好和有目的地集成。该项目正在通过在日益增长的地貌学学科中创建新的教科书来测试研讨会的建议，该学科首先在12到30年前在12到30年前发表。评估计划是该提案不可或缺的一部分，而教科书开发过程旨在提高最终产品的质量，并确定该项目是否符合其创建一本对学生和教职员工都广泛接受且有用的书籍的目标。