How to get involved

We faculty are the researchers, authors, reviewers, editors, producers and now distributors of information in the academy. Why not just do it ourselves?  Why rely on dead tree pulp to transmit information in a static, linear format?  Why rely on prose characterizations of multimedia examples? Why purchase updates, at considerable expense, from publishers annually?  Why keep our fine-crafted and carefully-selected examples to ourselves? For more, see Textbooks 2.0.

The culture of the academy is ideally one of transparency, honesty and openness in our intellectual endeavors.  Why not extend these fundamental values to the research, authorship, reviewing, editing, producing and distributing of textbooks?

Use – coming soon!

Contribute – Most of us who have taught Critical Thinking for a while have a store house of well-worn examples ready to bring out to illustrate this or that form of reasoning. But most of us also stick these away in file cabinets for most of the time, leaving each-other to reinvent the wheel every fall. If you have excellent examples, please consider contributing them to this project. Sign up for an account, and note your institutional affiliation. I’ll verify your information and get you instructions on how to submit. See policy on content.

Review – Ideally, all items on the site will be subjected to the same kind of rigorous peer review as a professional journal.  That means we need reviewers! If you’re willing to review, contact _________.

Edit – Editors are wonderful people.  We need some. Editors will be assigned ‘domains’ of informal reasoning that they will oversee.  If you’re interested in editing, please contact _______.