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Articulation of community college courses using OER to universities

I am interested in any "issues" that may arise when a community college uses an OER in a transfer course. Specifically, are there challenges when transferring that course to the public university in the same state as the cc? About 2 months ago, I sent an email to all CCCOER member institutions outside of California, asking this question. The community colleges that responded indicated that there was no problem as the text book is not listed on the… Continue

Posted on June 17, 2009 at 9:42pm — 2 Comments

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At 9:11am on March 9, 2011, John Redden said…

Elementary Algebra is a complete ready to use textbook.  

 

I tried as best I can to write it in a modular fashion.  For example, functions are covered in a separated way.  I really think that it is more widely adoptable than if I would have done it solo on cnx.  I was able to add some video clips... maybe next edition I will add some geogebra elements.  But for now I am working on Intermediate.  

 

The importance of the review and copy edit process can not be overstated. Here is my blog about it.

At 3:08pm on March 2, 2011, John Redden said…

Sorry for the delay Barbara... it took a very long time to do this!  Here is Elementary Algebra.

 

http://flatworldknowledge.com/pub/elementary-algebra/356560#web-356560

 

Let me know what you think.  John

 
 
 

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