My name is Ken Mondschein. I hold a PhD in History (Fordham, 2010), have a decade of college teaching experience, and am currently an M.Ed. student in Learning, Media, and Technology at UMass-Amherst. I have long noticed there is a need for a multimedia OER (Open Educational Resource) textbook for introductory college World/Global History courses, and especially seen a need for a textbook that is accessible and interesting to today's college students. Seeing this need, I have decided to create an open-access multimedia World/Global history textbook for my M.Ed. project. The final project will take the form of narrated videos openly available on YouTube, together with transcripts. It is designed to be 13 units for a one-semester World History to 1500 course, with each unit having several short videos. The idea is that a student should be able to access the course material asynchronously from their smartphone on breaks from their job, childcare, or other tasks over low bandwidth.

This survey is intended to gather feedback before final production. The first two lessons are complete; the rest exist as script. Please read the manuscript carefully (including the design notes) and take notes on scratch paper or in a word-processor. Please then give your specific feedback on chapters, corrections of errors or oversights, and general comments in the appropriate boxes on the survey. (I do not want reviewers to see one another's feedback, so I am not using Google's comments feature.)

The URL for accessing the contents page to begin is:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lVJRwaKf2P5ARHBLm97FS5Zw_1z2_UjTHTl6j4AUB2I/edit?usp=sharing

My personal website (with my academic publications) is http://www.kenmondschein.com, and if you have additional comments or concerns, please contact me.