The Advocate Trainer

Scroll way down to see discussion forums and the group wall.

This
is the location for materials and links that Advocate/Trainers can
use at their colleges and in their workshops.

In the short term, check your cohort group for materials. To add
materials you develop, attach them in a comment below using the
white box icon at the end of the row of icons. The moderators will
move them into this textbox.

Suggested topics for workshops: (click links to see list of
materials)
1. Overview of Open Textbooks
2. Discover and Select
3. Adopt and Use

We really need your help gathering information about open textbook
usage. Please enter your information in the first blank row of this
Google Doc http://tiny.cc/wDMsq
about textbooks (commercial or open) that you are using or plan to
use. You may enter the information anonymously if you prefer but
please remember your row number. Also, please ask all the people
who attend your workshop to enter data in this form.

Other Materials:
Marketing
Post Workshop Blog

Picture is Beautiful
Tools by geishaboy500 /
CC BY 2.0

Overview:

Please customize or replace this generic slide set for the
overview

CampusAdoptionWorkshopIntroductorySession.pptx

Erik Christensen's PowerPoint presentation:

0WorkshopMarch12-1_Erik_Christensen_South Florida Community
College.pptm

Slideshow useful in overview: http://collegeopentextbooks.org/janetspencer.html

Jeopardy: useful as a review after the overview:

OT Jeopardy.ppt

Jeopardy directions: Jeopardy_directions.doc

This slideshare presentation contains some slides that you may want
to use in your workshop:

http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi/building-a-global-teaching-profile-showcasing-open-educational-resources-at-the-university-of-cape-town
-Slide 7 points to this Creative Commons video with sound available
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3rksT1q4eg

Slideshare presentation about OER by Greg Grossmeier:
The Road to Open Educational Resources

Open textbooks FAQs are available at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dspc/opentextsfaq.html
and at http://oerconsortium.org/open-textbook-faqs/

Outstanding slides developed by Susan Amper for a workshop at TC3
August 2010
Open Textbook Workshop at TC3 Susan Amper.ppt

Open Textbooks Flyer from Student PIRGS

Article with some good statistics about textbook costs:
Textbooks' costs keep stacking up

Copyright and OER by Judy Baker. This article
includes info on Fair Use and on the student savings from just on
open textbook.

“Introduction to OER tutorial”

http://oerconsortium.org/2008/08/25/introduction-to-oer-tutorial/

Wiki Educator “OER Handbook for Educators 1.0”

http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one

“A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources”

http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=357

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Discover and
Select:

Generic Discover & Select slide show:Discover
and Select Generic.ppt

Outstanding Discover and Select slide set by Angela Secrest of
Houston Community College. There are comments in the notes field so
it is better not to view this in slideshow mode. http://library.hccs.edu/oer/discoverandselect.ppt

Goldilocks and the 13 Repositories: A presentation given at the
League of Innovation in Baltimore March 31, 2010. This presentation
makes a clear distinction between repositories and lists.
Repositories Presentation for League.ppt

Excellent summary of repositories by Judy Baker:
OpenTextbookRepositories version 3.doc

FlatWorld Knowledge is the only for-profit company
that produces exclusively open textbooks. The books are very high
quality. FlatWorld's website has some interesting videos and other
information for instructors and students. If your workshop will
have large attendance, FlatWorld may be able to provide a guest
speaker.

Ohio video shows free textbook sources including CCOTC:
http://ohiotextbookhq.ning.com/video/3-places-to-get-free-textbooks

Two open textbooks specifically mentioned in some of the
workshops:
Sociology http://freebooks.uvu.edu/SOC1010/
Art History: http://www.smarthistory.org.
We also showed an open psychology book but we are not sure which
one. All of the psych books are at http://collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/open-textbooks-by-subject/psychology.html

Many more open textbooks are listed at http://collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/open-textbooks-by-subject.html

Slide show and podcast for educators about Creative Commons; turn
on the sound! http://www.slideshare.net/thecleversheep/creative-commons-what-every-educator-needs-to-know-presentation

Terrific Creative Commons lesson with two workshop exercises:

Creative Commons Attribution Licenses V2 by Ken Busbee.doc This
document was created by Ken Busbee of Houston Community
College.

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Adopt and Use:

Adopt and Use generic presentation
adopt and use generic for campus workshops.ppt

Here is Erik Christensen's video about his adoption of an open
physics textbook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBDC4Qvxw60

Adoption of Open Textbooks Quick Start: http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/page/adopt-1

Lessons learnt from transforming teaching materials
into OERs

A Staff Guide to Open Educational Resources is
packed with information in a 7-page booklet -- a great take-away
from your workshop.

Please see our VIDEOS page for two related videos. One shows exactly how Malissa Attebery, an instructional designer at Lone Star College, adopted and adapted a history open textbook by Jud Sage. The other illustrates Jacqui Cain's use of Softchalk to build a course around a public domain Sherlock Holmes book.

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Marketing

This slideset from the final session of the May
online workshop includes a summary of the best practices of about
25 advocate/trainers. These include great ideas for advocating to
stakeholders, getting buyin to joining the OER consortium,
marketing workshops, and providing workshops.

Marketing of Workshops Discussions

Benefits for Community Colleges in Joining CCCOER

Convincing a college to join CCCOER

Open Textbooks Flyer from Student PIRGS


Opentextbooksflyer-_Erik Christensen-South Florida Community
College.docx

Success in
Utah

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