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How Free Online Courses Are Changing the Traditional Liberal Arts Education--From PBS

Catching Cheaters on Open Online Courses--From PBS

Coursera strikes MOOC licensing deal with Antioch University

Online classes website that includes open courseware, open textbooks and more

80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives

Site that helps find accessible college textbooks (both open and copyright all rights reserved)

Open Educational Resources (OER) Background and Action Report for Bilateral and Multilateral Agencies Project by Paul G. West and Lorraine Victor May 2011

A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)

Economic Alchemy: How to Raise Tuition but Lower Student Costs

Advanced OER Topics written by John Robertson then collected and organized
Advanced OER and Libraries written by John Robertson then collected and organized

Open: Necessary but not Sufficient by Michael Gurstein

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

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

Vic Vuchic of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation discusses OER

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

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

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.

Open Office

Inexpensive cloud-based Microsoft Office 

UNESCO OER Community

The Saylor Foundation free online courses CC BY licensed

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

Starting an Open Textbook? Think 100 or 200 Level Courses

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:
 
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
 
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

The Open Textbook - a blog about business models
 
Can my K12 School Save Money with Open Textbooks? an online calculator

Open Library

Internet Archive
 
Open Access: A Matter For Definition A dozen definitions/policies of open access appear in this report:
 
Phil Lacey's excellent OER Resources page
 
OER Commons: People keep asking for one central place to find everything. This is it.
 
Digital Textbooks Reaching the Tipping Point
 
UC Berkeley OER in Higher Education
 
Einstein University -- Newly formed as completely free -- good structure, little content
 
How to Turn an Online Course into a Book
 
UNESCO OER Social Networking
 
XPERT Tool for OER Search and captioning OER photos
 
Nottingham University Open Courseware
 
Seven Thinks You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing
 
University of the People
 
Global Online Universities Consortium
 
UNESCO OER Social Networking Site
 
Price Waterhouse Coopers Open University
 
The (London) TImes 100: Teaching Business Through Case Studies
 
Open Educational Resources Portal from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
 
Using Open Content to Drive Educational Change by Bill Fitzgerald with lots of replies
 
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
 
National Association of College Stores Policy on OER - (Note: this is a PDF file, not a webpage.)
 
Open Studio - A collection of art-making ideas by artists
 
Getting to Know a Digital Textbook by Terence Cavanaugh 
 
UC Irvine Open Textbook Forum Webcast
 
Issuu self-publishing
 
Open Collaboration Encyclopedia
 
Info about the forthcoming World Library of Science
 
PBWorks OER Workshop
 
Proof that OER Works
 
OER Mindmap by Donna Gaudet
 
Slide to Learn Community and Slide to Learn website
 
Gimp The GNU image Manipulation Program
 
Open Source vector graphics editor: Inkscape
 
MIT tool to create educational videos: Scratch
 
Open Source Videos Kaltura
 
Africa Virtual University launched January 19 2011
 
Quality Matters
 
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 include multimedia such as video and simulations.
 
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
 
How to grow a textbook by Joyce Kasman Valenza
 
De Anza College contact list
 
David Thornburg on Open Textbooks - An Edutopia Blog Post
 
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
 
Comparison of free licenses
 
Considerations for Creative Commons Licensing of Open Educational Resources
 
Community College Enrollment Statistics
 
Everything from flu shots to travel arrangements: Campus bookstores go bookless
 
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
 
Florida Open Text Book project
 
Open Content Online - a blog by Andreia Inamorato dos Santos
 
Berkeley OER class
 
Textbooks Up their Game -- You may need a WSJ subscription to see this article.
 
Nellie Deutsch Ning
 
'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
 
OER Arts Collaborative
 
Sociology Author/Adopter Community
 
New York Times article July 31 about Curriki open textbook repository
 
Simulations as Open Resources
 
SaaS Startup StayClassy Helps Non-Profits with Online Fundraising
 
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.
 
Harry Potter and the Future of the Textbook
 
How to Build an Online Community by Richard Millington
 
Top 50 best-selling textbooks.
 
Training Educators to Design and Develop Open and Distance Learning Materials
 
video PR for College Algebra open textbook by Stitz-Zeager
 
California K-12 initiatives
http://www.clrn.org/home/about.cfm
http://www.opensourcetext.org/
 
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
 
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
 
GAO HEHS-96-154 Higher Education
http://www.gao.gov/archive/1996/he96154.pdf
 
GAO -05-806
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf
 
The Future of Educational Publishing, Thad Mclroy 

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