Kelfazin, although I agree we need to recruit, I don't believe we have the magic formula to win instructors to us yet. After over 100 posts, none have jumped in to take the reins.
antoniseb has been the only one that has come close, but his willingness was before
Fraser introduced the idea of, essentially, writing our own for our use as well as for Wiki Books. A quality textbooks could easily be over 300 pages along with extenisve drawings, images, and, hopefully, animations. Ask any one individual to take the responsibility would be unfair and unreasonable. I have PM'd a couple of potential professors for us and have come to the conclusion they like the idea but are not able to dedicate time for this project.
IMO, for instructors to assist, they have to be interested and attracted enough to contribute in a manner that will not be too obigatory on their time. They come here for other reasons than to extend their formal teaching and become more accountable to others. We must make it a win - win for everyone, and fun, too. The truth is we know they love to teach; just look at some of their post counts; they love this stuff, and so do we. How do we make it fun for them?
The only thing I can think of is to keep all obligations to a minimum and go where they are the most attracted, or at least we see them the most active, - individual topics. So, what if we establish the outline for one chapter, then make each section, or subsection, a specific topic that we introduce as a thread title. They would know, or be informed in the OP, that their efforts would be special since they would be contributing to a project they already, IMO, deem as very worthy.
Kelfazin, I like your idea of a dedicated forum and would
Fraser would not object.
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Originally Posted by suntrack2
The course can be bifurcate in a, b, c like sections
A: basics of astronomy
b. Star and planet study
c. Photos and links related with the subjects, viewing tools information 'of telescopes' worldwide, (in which all links can be bring together).
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I think organization like this is just what we need. If we can break it down to an outline form - where chapter subsections could become threads of their own - then we will start seeing some real pro particpation, I think.