Can a Great Textbook be Free? Building a Sustainable New Text Model in the Era of the $200 Textbook

 11AM-Noon PST 

2:00-3:00 PM EST

With the emergence of disruptive new business models, higher education publishing is in a state of tremendous flux. The rise of high quality, peer-reviewed open textbooks challenges the current status quo and the traditional model of overpriced, inflexible and too-often revised textbooks. Eric Frank will discuss:

- Why Higher Education Publishing is failing to meet the needs of today's students, faculty, authors and institutions
- Emerging new textbooks based on openly licensed content
- Challenges and opportunities to building a sustainable new model of textbooks based on the economics of free.

To register:

http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e36obxjxaf31dcce&llr=dtr4fkcab

1.  Click on the following link or paste it into your browser window:
http://www.cccconfer.org/CCCC/MeetingSchedule.aspx?ShowType=Webinars

2.  Locate the webinar -

Can a Great Textbook be Free? Building a Sustainable New Text Model in the Era of the $200 Textbook on January 27, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. (PST)  (which is also 2pm EST).

3.  Click on "GO" at the right end of the row.

4.  Enter the requested information in the dialogue box:

•    first and last names
•    institutional e-mail
•    screen name + institutional affiliation (so others know what state or group you are with)

5.  Click on "CONNECT". The software should automatically begin to download which may take anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes depending upon your Internet connection speed. If it does not download, check to see that ActiveX is enabled on your computer. You may have an information bar displaying at the top of your screen: "Click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage." If yes, click in the box.

 Audio is available in two ways:

• A phone conference that enables you to listen and talk. Information regarding joining via phone will be available to you when you sign in.
• Another option is to listen on your computer's speakers or headset and type questions and comments in the chat window. 

Support:

For technical support contact clientservices@cccconfer.org
Tel: 760-744-1150 ext. 1537 or ext. 1554

Please contact David Nelson at dnelson@distancelearn.org if you have any questions.