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

地质学(42)这个项目正在创建和评估一种新型的教科书--一本经济、简洁和专注于地貌学最重要原理的指南，即地球动态表面的研究。这本“短书”由15章组成，每章15至18页，每一章都特别侧重于通过建立社区共识的过程确定的核心概念。这本书及其附带的公共领域电子媒体的目标是以一种与当今学生处理信息的方式相关的简明方式来组织和展示关于地球表面的最重要的知识。该项目涉及地球科学的一个动态学科，并作为STEM学科教科书编写的典范。这本教科书由一家商业出版商设计、印刷和分发，并链接到一个公共领域网站，该网站托管一套电子媒体，被称为“小插曲”。这些是简短(1000字)的案例研究，补充了正文，并允许定制学习环境。一些小插曲是基于地点的例子；一些是地貌学中重要方程或问题的量化处理；另一些是澄清困难概念的视频或动画。这些小插曲由专家创建，其他人审查，链接到教科书，可在线搜索，免费提供，既有在线版本，也有PDF版本。“短书”的概念来自于2006年国家科学基金会/美国国家科学院举办的研讨会“重新考虑教科书”的建议，该研讨会建议未来的教科书将简短、经济、反映社会共识、以学生为中心，并与电子媒体很好和有目的地整合。该项目正在通过编写一本关于地貌学不断发展的学科的新教科书来检验讲习班的建议，现有的教科书是在12至30年前首次出版的。评估计划是这项提议和教科书开发过程中不可或缺的一部分，旨在提高最终产品的质量，并确定该项目是否实现了其目标，即创造一本被广泛接受并对学生和教师都有用的书籍。

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.