Resources

 

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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

 

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.)
  
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

PBWorks OER Workshop
 
Gimp The GNU image Manipulation Program

Open Source vector graphics editor: Inkscape

MIT tool to create educational videos: Scratch

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
 

Groups:

 

UNESCO OER Community

The Saylor Foundation free online courses CC BY licensed
 
UC Berkeley OER in Higher Education
 
Einstein University -- Newly formed as completely free -- good
structure, little content
 
UNESCO OER Social Networking
 
Nottingham University Open Courseware
 
University of the People
 
Global Online Universities Consortium
 
UNESCO OER Social Networking Site
 
Price Waterhouse Coopers Open University
 
David Thornburg on Open Textbooks - An Edutopia Blog Post

 

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