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的教科书风格-一个经济，简洁，重点指南地貌学的最重要的原则，地球的动态表面的研究。这本“短书”由15章组成，每一章长15到18页，每一章都特别关注通过建立社区共识的过程确定的核心概念。这本书的目标，及其伴随的公共领域的电子媒体，是组织和目前有关地球表面的最重要的知识，在一个简洁的方式相关的方式，今天的学生处理信息。该项目涉及地球科学的动态学科，并作为STEM学科教科书创作的典范。这本教科书由一家商业出版商设计、印刷和发行，并链接到一个公共领域网站，该网站托管一套电子媒体，称为“小插曲”。这些是简短的（1000字）案例研究，补充了文本，并允许定制的学习环境。有些插图是基于地点的例子;有些是对地貌学中重要方程或问题的定量处理;还有一些则以澄清困难概念的视频或动画为特色。这些小插曲是由专家创作的，由其他人审查，与教科书链接，可以在线搜索，并可以在线和PDF版本免费获得。“短书”的概念来自2006年NSF/国家科学院研讨会的建议，“重新考虑教科书”，建议未来的教科书将是简短的，经济的，反映社区共识，以学生为中心，并与电子媒体很好地结合。该项目正在测试讲习班的建议，编写一本新的地貌学教科书，现有的教科书是在12至30年前首次出版的。评估计划，这是不可或缺的这一建议和教科书的开发过程，旨在提高最终产品的质量，并确定该项目是否已达到其目标，创造一本书，是广泛接受和有用的学生和教师。

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.