[FM Discuss] IEEE Article: "Who Wrote This Stuff?"

[Edward Cherlin]

Commercial textbooks are often written by incompetent individuals. See
Judging Books by Their Covers, by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:06, Cesar Ballardini <cesar at ballardini.com.ar> wrote:
> 2010/10/22 Janet Swisher <jmswisher at gmail.com>:
>> http://www.todaysengineer.org/2010/Oct/backscatter.asp
>>
>> An engineering professor is alarmed by the risks of collaboratively textbooks.
>
> The risks are true.  But there are other control/power strugles that I can see.
>
> How to address the risks?  is a good question.  To inhibit the
> collaborative writing doesn't seem a creative approach to me.
>
> The commercial world of computing devices uses "certification" as a
> means of minimal control quality over contents.  May be we could
> create a new role besides authors/editors,  some "certifier council
> member" .  The council will be local (some school), for some area of
> interest. with some requirements for its members (academics), or
> one-person made (the author)  Any one or mix of them will be
> acceptable in certain case.  This certification badges will have
> meaning to the readers.
>
> Well, my english is very primitive, I hope you can cope with it :)
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> It's not enough to teach students to surf the Net, we must teach them to
> make waves. My pedagogical theory is relate, create, donate, which
> suggests that students work in teams, create ambitious projects and then
> donate these to people who can use and build upon them. --Ben Shneiderman
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net
>



-- 
Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
http://www.earthtreasury.org/