Author Recruitment for Neuroscience Activities

Dear Colleague,

Thank you for your interest in this project! I am looking for fellow professors, instructors, and scientists to join me in creating a new set of online activities to teach basic concepts in behavioral neuroscience to undergraduate students. The activities are meant to support the material presented in my textbook An Introduction to Brain and Behavior, by Bryan Kolb, Ian Whishaw, and myself. Our goal is to bring to life for students how the nervous system works--beyond what can be accomplished on the page.

The work will commence in June and July 2018 with the recruitment of a team of authors for these activities. We will have conference calls to determine the topics and scope of the activities. We will then divide the work and write drafts of the activities, which will combine text, animations, simulations, and assessment questions. It is not necessary for you to have any kind of background in creating educational software, though it is useful for you to have experience using electronic media in your classes. We will then be working with programmers to create the activities. Although the writing of the activities will take place mainly this summer and fall, we will also be reviewing beta test versions of the activities into the winter. Apart from some phone-based meetings, most of the work will be asynchronous. Because these activities are meant for classroom use, we are especially looking for collaborators with experience teaching these topics to university undergraduates.

If you think you would be a good match for this project, please start by filling out the survey below. From the results, we will select the most qualified respondents to complete a short sample project, so we can learn more about how you write and think about online media. All the work will be paid, including the sample project. I'm excited to get started and look forward to the creative journey.

Thank you again for your interest! I hope you can join me.

Sincerely,
Cam Teskey

1. First Name *This question is required.

2. Last Name *This question is required.

3. What institution are you currently affiliated with? *This question is required.

4. What is your current academic position? *This question is required.

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5. Do you teach a course in behavioral neuroscience? *This question is required.

6. Briefly describe the behavioral neuroscience course(s) you teach, including the course number, how many years you've been teaching it, when you expect to teach it again, and a description of the level of students who take it. *This question is required.

7. List the author and title of the textbook(s) you use for this course. *This question is required.

8. Describe what online materials you use to teach the course, especially any videos, animations, tutorials, or other activities sourced from a publisher or from the internet. *This question is required.

9. Apart from any online materials you currently use to teach your course, what additional online resources would you like to have to teach your course? *This question is required.

10. In addition to any activities described above, do you incorporate active learning into any of your courses? If so, how? *This question is required.

11. Have you ever taught a course online? *This question is required.

12. What interests you about this project? *This question is required.

13. What makes you a strong candidate for this project? *This question is required.

14. What questions do you have about the project that we can answer? *This question is required.

Author Recruitment for Neuroscience Activities

Thank you for your interest!