Preface

The Creation of This Book

This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education.

This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond by creating materials that can be adopted for dual enrollment environments. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time.

The cohort-developed OER course materials are released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others. This includes a corresponding course available in MoodleNet and Canvas Commons that can be imported to other Learning Management System platforms. For access/questions, contact Affordable Learning Louisiana.

If you are adopting this textbook, we would be glad to know of your use via this brief survey.

Review Statement

This textbook and its accompanying course materials went through at least two review processes:

• Peer reviewers, coordinated by Jared Eusea, River Parish Community College, used an online course development standard rubric for assessing the quality and content of each course to ensure that the courses developed through Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment support online learners in that environment. The evaluation framework reflects a commitment to accessibility and usability for all learners.
  • Reviewers
    • Steven Schwamenfeld.
    • Constance Chemay
    • Paula Griswold

• The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) collaborated with LOUIS to review course materials and ensure their appropriateness for dual enrollment audiences.  Review criteria were drawn from factors that apply across dual enrollment courses and subject areas, such as determining appropriate reading levels, assessing the fit of topics and examples for high school DE students; applying high-level principles for quality curriculum design, including designing for accessibility, appropriate student knowledge checks, and effective scaffolding of student tasks and prior knowledge requirements, addressing adaptability and open educational practices, and principles related to inclusion and representational social justice.
  • Reviewers
    • Erik Aswell
    • Jessica Lawal

Adaptation Statement 

This book is an adaptation of Modern World History by Dan Allosso (Bemidji State University) and Tom Williford (Southwest Minnesota State University) which can be found at https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/modernworldhistory/. Modern World History is licensed as CC BY-NC-SA. We would like to thank Dr. Allosso and Dr. Williford for their work in this area of open educational resources.

The following changes were made to this book as a whole: 

• H5P activities were inserted at the end of each chapter to reinforce concepts.
• Review questions, terminology, and call out boxes were color-coded.
• Where possible, the book was rewritten to improve accuracy, update information and terms, ensure a truly global focus, and emphasize diversity of source materials, viewpoints, and historical figures, to ensure the contemporary relevance of Modern World History to students.

The following chapters were either substantially edited or had significant original material added: 

• Chapter 1: The World at 1500
• Chapter 2: New Encounters
• Chapter 5: The Troubled Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 6: Imperialism
• Chapter 10: Decolonization
• Chapter 11: Cold War
• Chapter 12: Globalization
• Chapter 13: The Anthropocene

The following chapters were lightly edited: 

• Chapter 3: The Americas and the Impact of Columbus
• Chapter 4: The Question of Freedom and the Age of Revolutions
• Chapter 8: The Modern Crisis
• Chapter 9: World War II