Kelvin Seifert (2009) in his TeachEdPsych post "New Open-Source
Textbook 'Educational Psychology' " wrote:
"Rosemary Sutton and I (Kelvin Seifert) are pleased to announce that
we have just completed an open-source textbook, "Educational
Psychology," available online in full text, free of charge. Since the
text is available under the Creative Commons License, anyone can use
it, or parts of it; if you do, just be sure to acknowledge the
authors and publisher as the source. If you want to see the book, go
to this website: <http://globaltextproject.org/books> . . . . and
click on approximately the second book listed. The book is 377 pages
long (2 megs) and in pdf format, so it may take a couple of minutes
to download completely . . . . . Initiated in early 2006, the Global
Text Project engages the collective intelligence of academics and
practitioners in making high-quality, editorially-reviewed texts
available under a Creative Commons license. Books can be tailored
for the needs of individual countries, or communities. They will be
continually updated by their creators and, importantly, by the
community of academics and students that use them."
Lawrence Rogien (2009) responded:
"Kelvin, Great idea! I went to the URL but I am getting a Page Load
Error. Is the URL correct?"
For an academic reference (with properly hot-linked URL's) to
"Educational Psychology" [Seifert & Sutton (2008)] see the REFERENCE
list below.
As a minor cavil on this fine text, I was disappointed that Chapter
10 "Teacher-made assessment strategies" makes no reference to the
conceptual inventories that are being successfully employed in
formative pre/post testing to improve the effectiveness of courses in
undergraduate astronomy, biology, chemistry, economics, engineering,
geoscience, math, and physics (but NOT psychology!) - see e.g. Hake
(2009).
P.S.: I shall mercifully forbear mention of suggestion #9 of my
universally ignored "Fourteen Posting Suggestions" [Hake (2005)]:
"9. Give URL's as <http://......>. For most (but not all)
server/mail systems: the "http://"; serves to hot-link URL's, and the
angle brackets <. . .> serve to preserve hot-linking across line
breaks and to indicate what is and what is not part of the URL. Note
that unlike <http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=711>, its
abbreviation <www.aera.net/publications/?id=711> is NOT hot-linked.
CLICK ON ALL URL'S IN YOUR MESSAGE TO BE SURE THEY WORK."
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
<[email protected]>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/>
REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy <http://tinyurl.com/create.php>.]
Hake, R.R. 2005. "Fourteen Posting Suggestions," online at
<http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0507&L=pod&P=R12861&I=-3>. Post
of 23 Jul 2005 11:38:29-0400 to AERA-C, AERA-G, AERA-GSL, AERA-H,
AERA-I, AERA-J, AERA-K, AERA-L, ASSESS, EvalTalk, Math-Learn,
PhysLrnR, POD, STLHE-L, TeachingEdPsych, and TIPS.
Hake, R.R. 2009. "Should We Measure Change? Yes!" online at
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/MeasChangeS.pdf> (2.5 MB), and
as ref. 43 at <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>. To appear as a
chapter in an AEA Monograph "Evaluation of Teaching and Student
Learning in Higher Education" [Hake, in preparation].
Rogien, L. 2009. "Re: New Open-Source Textbook 'Educational
Psychology',"TeachEdPsych post of 16 Jan 2009 17:01:21 -0500; online
at <http://tinyurl.com/aysumd>.
Seifert, K. 2009. "New Open-Source Textbook 'Educational Psychology',
" TeachEdPsych post of 18 Jan 2009 12:43:57-0700; online at
<http://tinyurl.com/8sznxr>.
Seifert, K. & R. Sutton. 2008. "Educational Psychology." Global Text
Project funded by the Jacobs Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland;
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License; online as
a 2.9 MB pdf at <http://tinyurl.com/8tdsyp> and also at
<http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/books> (2nd book listed).
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