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Academic/Professional Biography: Assistant Director of the Instructional Technology Program at UC Berkeley (1987 - 2001)
Senior Strategist with Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley (2001 - 2006)
Co-chair of the IMS Technical Board (2005 - 2006)

How have you used open textbooks?: I've written articles and made presentations on economic models for developing and maintaining open textbooks.
In 2007, I gave testimony to a committee of the US House of Representatives that was looking into the cost of commercial textbooks.

What is your website address?: http://innovationmemes.blogspot.com/

Which college, university, company, or organization?: Formerly with UC Berkeley

Role: Student, Instructor, Author, Staff, Other (be specific): Retired

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At 1:09pm on March 14, 2011, Micheline said…: Hi Fred,

We are very pleased to have you join our COT community!

Welcome to the networking space for College Open Textbooks. Feel free to browse, comment, seek help, and contribute in any way you like. Help us promote open textbooks! As a community, we are driving the awareness and adoption of open textbooks. You can visit the 'Groups' tab to expand your community.

College Open Textbooks has a list of links to over 550 open textbooks and other open learning content at http://collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/open-textbooks-by-subject.html Over 100 of these open textbooks have been peer-reviewed by community college educators. To see the reviews, go to http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/thereviews.html

We also have some additional resources for you if you need them. Visit our website: http://collegeopentextbooks.org and Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources. There is a great FAQs section at http://oerconsortium.org/open-textbook-faqs which will start to answer many questions you might have about Open Textbooks.

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Micheline Isaac

Project contractor, College Open Textbooks