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

地质（42）这个项目正在创建和评估一种新型教科书——一本经济、简洁、重点突出的地貌学（研究地球动态表面）最重要原理的指南。这本“短书”由15章组成，每章15到18页长，每个章节都特别关注通过社区共识建立过程确定的核心概念。这本书的目标，及其附带的公共领域的电子媒体，是组织和呈现有关地球表面的最重要的知识，在一个简洁的时尚相关的方式，今天的学生处理信息。该项目涉及地球科学的一个动态学科，并作为STEM学科教科书创建的模型。该教科书由一家商业出版商设计、印刷和分发，并与一个公共领域网站相连，该网站拥有一套被称为“Vignettes”的电子媒体。这些是简短的（1000字）案例研究，补充了文本，并允许定制学习环境。有些小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；另一些则以视频或动画的形式来阐明一些困难的概念。这些小插图由专家制作，由其他人审核，链接到教科书，可在线搜索，并且免费提供，在线和PDF版本都有。“短书”的概念来自2006年美国国家科学基金会/国家科学院研讨会“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，反映社区共识，以学生为中心，并有目的地与电子媒体相结合。这个项目是为了测试研讨会的建议，为正在发展的地貌学学科编写一本新的教科书，而现有的教科书是在12到30年前首次出版的。评估计划是本提案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，并确定该项目是否达到了创建一本被广泛接受并对学生和教师都有用的书的目标。

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.