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Douglas L. Jones and Catherine A. Schmidt-Jones
The Internet has revolutionized many industries, and is about to change the textbook as well. New ways to create, distribute, and use textbooks are emerging, as embodied in the Connexions open-source text environment (http://IEEEcnx.org). Open-source, Creative Commons licenses, along with a common format and powerful tools for creating and combining smaller knowledge modules into larger texts or complete courses, allows Connexions authors to focus on unique, high-impact contributions while drawing on complementary contributions of others to rapidly create complete texts tailored to their individual courses.
The IEEE Signal Processing Society has launched a major initiative to develop and certify a large pool of high-quality educational content in Connexions spanning the field of signal processing. This tutorial will fully prepare authors to contribute. Co-taught by Douglas L. Jones, who has contributed over 100 modules and teaches both an award-winning DSP laboratory course and an advanced digital signal processing course from his textbooks in Connexions, and Catherine A. "Kitty" Schmidt-Jones, Connexions' most successful author (over 2 million page views per year), this tutorial will give participants an overview of Connexions and the signal processing content already available to them, a review of the Creative Commons open-source license, and instruction in creating new modules and assembling them into courses from scratch, using the CnxML and MathML markup languages. Attendees will learn how to import material from other formats, how to modify and reuse existing modules and courses, and how to publish print-on-demand hardcopy texts directly from Connexions materials.
This new medium requires a somewhat different writing style and organization to achieve the most effective and high-impact texts; Connexions' most successful author will reveal her secrets and teach how to most effectively incorporate various media to enhance students' interest and learning. This will be a hands-on workshop; attendees will bring laptops and create their own modules and courses in Connexions during the course of the tutorial.
Douglas L. Jones received the BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University in 1983, 1985, and 1987, respectively. During the 1987-1988 academic year, he was at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany on a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship. Since 1988, he has been with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Beckman Institute. He was on sabbatical leave at the University of Washington in Spring 1995 and at the University of California at Berkeley in Spring 2002. In the Spring semester of 1999 he served as the Texas Instruments Visiting Professor at Rice University. He is an author of two DSP laboratory textbooks, and was selected as the 2003 Connexions Author of the Year. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2002-2004. His research interests are in digital signal processing and communications, including nonstationary signal analysis, adaptive processing, multisensor data processing, OFDM, and various applications such as advanced hearing aids.
Catherine A. Schmidt-Jones graduated from Rice University in 1985, having completed a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry as well as a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in French horn performance. She currently resides in Champaign, Illinois, where she teaches private music lessons, develops open-source music education materials oriented for K-12 students and lay musicians, and occasionally performs on the French horn or guitar. She was named the 2004 Connexions Author of the Year and is Connexions' most popular author, with over two million page visits per year.