[RUME] New Open-Source Textbook 'Educational Psychology'

[Richard Hake]

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).

For dramatic new results on the Calculus Concept Inventory (CCI) see 
Epstein (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.
<rrhake at earthlink.net>
<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>.]
Epstein, J. 2009.  Re: NYTimes article -- new results on the CCI; 
PhysLrnR post of 13 Jan 2009 20:24:22+0000; online at 
<http://tinyurl.com/9uy77z>. To access the archives of PhysLnR one 
needs to subscribe, but that takes only a few minutes by clicking on 
<http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/physlrnr.html> and then 
clicking on "Join or leave the list (or change settings)."  If you're 
busy, then subscribe using the "NOMAIL" option under "Miscellaneous." 
Then, as a subscriber, you may access the archives and/or post 
messages at any time, while receiving NO MAIL from the list!  [The 
NYT article is "At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the 
Blackboard" <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/13physics.html>.]

  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).