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Textbook Affordability Success Stories in Ohio

Started Jan 13, 2010

What Open Textbooks Have You Adopted?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Judy Baker Jan 6, 2010.

Connexions Conference 2010 in Houston

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How have you used open textbooks?: I developed an open textbook, posted it to Connexions, and used it in my own online course at Foothill College.

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Create a Free Custom Health Textbook

You can create a free custom health textbook for your students at the Disease Control Priorities Project. You can selecting and combining chapters from Disease Control Priorities, second edition, and Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors. You can customize the title page. The table of contents and pagination will be generated automatically.

The Disease Control Priorities Project editors have… Continue

Posted on January 24, 2010 at 1:06pm

CA Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Textbook Affordability Initiative

Find out details about the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Textbook Affordability Initiative.

Information includes:

* Chancellor’s letter to Presidents re Textbook Affordability

* Recommendations to Reduce Textbook Costs and Promote Student Access and Success

* Summits and Presentations

* Legislation and… Continue

Posted on January 13, 2010 at 10:26pm

Ohio Textbook HQ

Ohio Textbook HQ provides "Getting Started with Digital & Open Educational Resources (OER)."

"As part of its ongoing effort to save students money on textbook costs, the University System of Ohio encourages faculty to make use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in their courses. OER are educational materials that are made freely available for anyone to access, share, and refine for their own… Continue

Posted on January 13, 2010 at 10:03pm

New CA Law Requires Digital College Textbooks by 2020

New California law requires digital college textbooks by 2020 - Ventura County Star http://bit.ly/4pQDhO

Posted on January 11, 2010 at 7:36pm — 2 Comments

Overview of U.S. academic textbook marketing politics

For an overview of U.S. academic textbook marketing politics, see Andrea James' Guest Blog on Boing Boing, "Prescription for consumers challenging academic textbook cartels."

Posted on January 3, 2010 at 9:30pm

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At 12:09pm on February 27, 2009, Karen Fasimpaur said…: Thanks for the feature! Glad to be a part of your community here.

I have it on my 'to do' list for today to write a post on our open dictionary in hopes that it might be a useful tool for some here.

At 3:56pm on December 21, 2008, Jud Sage said…: Thank you. The book is basically the web site in one volume in print form. They are not exactly the same, as I have links in the web site, etc. I updare both frequently, but both are works in progress. The big difference is that the content on the web site is in parts.

At 9:17am on October 12, 2008, Martha J. Kanter said…: Judy
Have we emailed all of the faculty who were part of the survey to get them into this site?