What is the Dynamic Textbook Project?
The Dynamic Textbook Project (DTP) is a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access textbooks to improve STEM education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at all levels of higher learning. The central aim of the DTP is to develop and disseminate free, virtual, customizable textbooks that will substitute for current, commercial paper texts in multiple courses at post-secondary institutions across the nation. This is accomplished via the construction of several pseudo-independently operating and interconnected “STEMWikis” that concentrate on specific STEM topics. The ChemWiki (http://ChemWiki.ucdavis.edu) is the pilot STEMWiki developed to demonstrate efficacy of the DTP approach and its development and implementation is the primary focus of this NGLC proposal.
