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Recent Additions:

1500 Colleges Ranked by Textbook Affordability

An OER Editor for the Rest of Us

The goal of the Open Library is to display one webpage for each book ever published.

Open Access Library allows free access to a database of 125,546 openly accessible academic articles

Interview with Dean Florez about UC, CSU and Community College use of Online Classes

Can Online Courses Ease California's Education Woes?

Project Blue Sky-- a search and integration tool for OER from Pearson!

Slate article about OER

Saying NO to college: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/fashion/saying-no-to-college.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Coursera strikes MOOC licensing deal with Antioch University

Learning Ally creates downloadable audiobooks (textbooks and literature) for students and lifelong learners who cannot read print due to blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, or other learning disabilities.

Why SA is better deterrent to exploitation than NC http://opensiddur.org/2011/03/why-to-choose-a-free-creative-commons-license-or-say-no-to-nc/

A valuable slideshow though misnamed; these slides are not resources in the sense of content but a list of places to find OER: 101 Open Educational Resources

Online classes organized by state http://www.onlineschools.org/guides/

Library of Public Domain Photos

OER Policy Registry tracks legislation and institutional policies

The Hybrid Classroom: How Online Learning Can Cut Costs By 57%

Should College Students be Forced to Buy eBooks?

Can one simple change improve education by orders of magnitude? See http://rightquestion.org/make-just-one-change/

COT Annual Report for Mid-2011 to Mid-2012

Teachers supplementing their incomes by providing web services

OER Webinar Series

Knewton Is Building The World's Smartest Tutor

Pearson, Knewton Team Up To Personalize College

Fast Facts about Education: enrollments etc

http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/materials

We cannot train enough teachers; we must use technology

OER InfoKit (good for senior management) https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836480/Home

Improve education radically with one change: students ask questions. See Harvard Education Letter http://www.hepg.org/hel/article/507

200 countries, 200 years

Open Educational Resources:

Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation

Dramatic Growth of Open Access

Open Questions on Open Courseware

Open Education Is Transforming the Way We Learn

Creative Commons Kiwi - clever video explaining how open licenses
work

Vic Vuchic of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation discusses OER

Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL), UNESCO and the European
Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL) invites organizations
to join the OPAL Register at http://www.oer-quality.org/

CSU Affordability initiative

Five Educational Innovations that won Gates NGLC Grants

Why Badges Work Better than Grades

How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn

First OER Debate from 2010. The next one is May 27, 2011
Part 1 is not available but it had no real content
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbyuuuPDctw&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5uRon0L3Bg&feature=related
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGN4-jnd6kc&feature=related
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5lalv2D3Z8&feature=related
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLCN7lT4-SU&feature=related

The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge
presentation by Lawrence Lessig at CERN April 18, 2011

A Time for Reform, Innovation, and Investment -input to our
Hats Off to Virginia blog post

Open Access: A Matter For Definition A dozen
definitions/policies of open access appear in this report:

Using Open Content to Drive Educational Change by Bill Fitzgerald
with lots of replies

Open Studio - A collection of art-making ideas by artists

Issuu self-publishing

Info about the forthcoming World Library of Science

Proof that OER Works

OER Mindmap by Donna Gaudet

Quality Matters

Blog of (Jan) Philipp Schmidt, Director and co-founder of the Peer 2 Peer
University called Sharing Nicely

Books were a new idea once upon a time

Considerations for Creative Commons Licensing of Open Educational Resources

Case study about the COT project by this instructor

Five Ways Technology Startups Can Disrupt Education

CORRE: A framework for transforming teaching materials into
OERs

Lessons learnt from transforming teaching materials into
OERs

Open Content Online - a blog by Andreia Inamorato dos Santos

'Open licences' of Copyright for authors, educators and
librarians Julien Hofman & Paul West

Swedish Musings on the definition of Non-Commercial

What is non-commercial use?

Barcelona Charter

How to Build an Online Community by Richard Millington

Training Educators to Design and Develop Open and Distance Learning
Materials

More OER Blogs than You Can Believe

Not everyone thinks modifiable books are a good idea

Archived Webinar given by open textbook adopter, a zealot,
and a publisher

The Future of Educational Publishing, Thad Mclroy

Textbooks:

GlueJar --Ungluing Textbooks with Free Books for the Public and Full
Value for Authors and Publishers

Google Books for OER - A proposal by the Open Knowledge Foundation

Why some think Non-Commercial licenses should not be considered
open. COT does not like NC much but we think No Derivatives
(ND) is a bigger problem. An open textbook that must be used
"as is" is almost unadoptable. It has one of the characteristics
that we dislike in commercial textbooks. It cannot be modified to
suit the students, cannot be put into a learning management system,
cannot be reformatted to print correctly, and more.

Starting an Open Textbook? Think 100 or 200 Level Courses

Open-Access Textbooks and Financial Sustainability:
A Case Study on Flat World Knowledge

Getting to Know a Digital Textbook by Terence Cavanaugh

The Open Textbook - a blog about business models

UC Irvine Open Textbook Forum Webcast

Digital Textbooks Reaching the Tipping Point

How to grow a textbook by Joyce Kasman Valenza

David Thornburg on Open Textbooks - An Edutopia Blog Post
Comparison of free licenses

Textbooks Up their Game -- You may need a WSJ subscription
to see this article.

Harry Potter and the Future of the Textbook

Top 50 best-selling textbooks.

video PR for College Algebra open textbook by Stitz-Zeager

Outstanding digital textbook growth projections. from
XPlana

The Higher Education Textbook Market
Prepared by the Association of American Publishers for
submission to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance,
September 15, 2006

American Textbook Publishing, information on
history textbooks

Demographics show that textbook sales will drop.
http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_age.html

The anatomy of textbook publishing: complex publication
process, lack of respect steer many scholars away from writing
textbooks - Faculty Club - Statistical Data Included, Black Issues in
Higher Education, June 20, 2002 by Kendra Hamilton, Ronald Roach

Digital Textbook Sales in U.S. Higher Education – A Five-Year
Projection, Rob Reynolds, Ph.D. and Yevgeny Ioffe

ACSFA College Textbook Cost Study Plan Proposal
Dr. James V. Koch, September 2006

The Transformation of Textbook Publishing in the Digital Age —
New Business Models Rob Reynolds

The open source textbook conundrum Dana Blankenhorn | October
21, 2008

Resources:

Open Office

Inexpensive cloud-based Microsoft Office

The 2006 survey conducted by Illinois Board of Higher Education
found that the average annual textbook cost to students at
community colleges was between $941 and $1027. This is the
report: http://tinyurl.com/6h6hmq8 -- It is a 128-page PDF; this statistic is on page 8.

Yale Digital Commons -- Thanks to Judy Baker to alerting us
to this story about 250,000 free images

Microsoft Academic Search

Directory of Open Access Journals

32 Films Noire

Education Statistics: Enrollments and More

College Tuition by State-- California Community Colleges have
the lowest tuition and fees so textbook costs are more significant
in the Golden State

California Economic and Workforce Development

A computer that costs only 15 British pounds and designed to
inspire young programmers:

Jefferson Lab is a great educational site; try the Science
Vocabulary Hangman games

OER Toolbox by Ilene Frank, Director of Library Services for
University of the People

Can my K12 School Save Money with Open Textbooks? an online
calculator

Open Library

Internet Archive

Phil Lacey's excellent OER Resources page

OER Commons: People keep asking for one central place to find
everything. This is it.

How to Turn an Online Course into a Book

XPERT Tool for OER Search and captioning OER photos

Seven Thinks You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing

Open Educational Resources Portal from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios
Superiores de Monterrey

Archive of Semi-Annual COT Collaborative Meeting Feb 22 2011

Hewlett-Packard Print-on-Demand trial at three universities

Video of the Espresso Print-on-Demand machine for campus bookstores

Open Collaboration Encyclopedia

Gimp The GNU image Manipulation Program

Open Source vector graphics editor: Inkscape

MIT tool to create educational videos: Scratch

The (London) TImes 100: Teaching Business Through Case Studies

National Association of College Stores Policy on OER -
(Note: this is a PDF file, not a webpage.)

PBWorks OER Workshop

Slide to Learn Community and Slide to Learn website

Open Source Videos Kaltura

OCW Scholar courses are designed for independent learners who have few additional
resources available to them. The courses are substantially more
complete than typical OCW courses and include new
custom-created content as well as materials repurposed from MIT classrooms.
The materials are are also arranged in logical sequences and
includemultimedia such as video and simulations.

De Anza College contact list

Fifteen out-of-copyright movies

Joyce Valenza list of open websites with image previews

Old COT Website

Tools for creating courseware DScribe Editing and
Mixing process from University of Michigan

OpenThesis A place to upload academic theses and read theses uploaded by
others. Neither the site nor the theses are open-licensed but
this is still a useful resource.

Scholarpedia

Community College Enrollment Statistics

Everything from flu shots to travel arrangements: Campus
bookstores go bookless

x OER Guidelines -- a collection of guidance documents on all
aspects of Open Educational Resources (OER) . These are written by
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math professionals and have wide
applicability in all fields.

California K-12 initiatives
http://www.clrn.org/home/about.cfm
http://www.opensourcetext.org/