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Community College Online Teaching Conference June 13-15, San Jose, CA

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CCCOER May 22 Webinar: Public Speaking with the Open Course Library at online, Pacific Time Zone

May 22, 2012 from 10am to 11am

Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) on Tuesday, May 22nd, 10:00 am Pacific for a webinar with the course designer and professor who developed the very popular Public Speaking course for the Open Course Library. Find out how the curriculum was designed using open educational resources to meet course standards for both a technical and community college and to enhance student engagement…See More

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Community College Online Teaching Conference June 13-15, San Jose, CA at Evergreen Valley College

June 13, 2012 to June 15, 2012

June 13, 14, 15, 2012 Evergreen Valley College, San Jose, CAThis conference focuses on Community College faculty, staff, and administrators engaged (or interested) in online education including delivery of online services such as student, faculty, library, and technical support.REGISTER NOW!Registration is open!General - $175 (4/21/12-6/11/12) On-site -…See More

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CCCOER May 1st Webinar: Finding and Selecting High Quality OER at online, Pacific Time Zone

May 1, 2012 from 10am to 11am

Please join us May 1st, 1:00 pm EST (10:00 am Pacific) for the CCCOER Webinar “Finding and Selecting High Quality Open Educational Resources”. Hear from a community college librarian, the director of a statewide open textbook project, and an open textbook publisher on best approaches for finding and selecting high-quality, accessible open textbooks and open educational resources to enhance teaching and learning in your classroom and expand access to education. Our featured speakers are:Kate…See More

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Academic/Professional Biography: Una Daly is the Community College Outreach Manager for the Open Courseware Consortium where she promotes awareness and adoption of open educational practices to improve teaching and learning at the community and two-year colleges. Prior to joining the consortium, she was the Director of the College Open Textbooks Collaborative promoting adoption of open accessible textbooks through faculty adopter communities and accessibility awareness for creation and reuse of open educational materials.

Her expertise also includes computer technologies and design and application of ePortfolios for learning assessment in health licensing and engineering. She worked as a software manager and engineer at Apple Computer, 3 Com, and Motorola prior to a career shift into higher education.

How have you used open textbooks?: Yes!

What is your website address?: http://ocwconsortium.org

Which college, university, company, or organization?: Open Courseware Consortium and Foothill College Instructor

Role: Student, Instructor, Author, Staff, Other (be specific): Community College Outreach Manager

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Using Open Courseware to receive credit for learning documented in an e-portfolio

Ellen Marie Murphy, Director of Online Curriculum from SUNY Empire State College is doing some research regarding the credentialing possibilities that exist for individuals who wish to receive credit

for learning they achieve using OpenCourseWare.

For those who are not familiar with OpenCourseWare, here is a link tothe OpenCourseWare Consortium.

Ellen would like you to take just a minute or so to answer…

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Posted on December 22, 2011 at 10:47am

Washington State Open Course Library hits 10,000 visitors in 11 Days

Tom Caswell, Program Manager for the Open Course Library, reported 10, 000 visitors to their site since its official launch of the first 42 courses on October 31, 2011. He sums up the project which will contain 81 open courses targeted at the highest-enrolled general education classes for lower division…

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Posted on November 11, 2011 at 9:38am

COT Adopter Community Grant Awards Announcement

It is with great pleasure that I announce the 8 winners of our Adopter Communities’ Small Grant program. Each community proposed an outstanding project that uses open textbooks or open educational resources to improve teaching and learning for their students. Disciplines ranged from the highly enrolled general education subjects of Chemistry, Physics, and Math to American Government and Developmental Reading & Composition. Professional and career disciplines were also represented…

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Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:19am

Notes from Open Ed Keynote by Martha Kanterand Jim Shelton, U.S. Department of Education

Thanks to Ruth Suehle, writer and editor in Brand Communications + Design at Red Hat for the notes. I was busy finishing my slides for 11:30 presentation on College Open Textbooks' Adopter Communities during the keynote but I was listening :-)!…

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Posted on October 25, 2011 at 3:00pm

Culture of Sharing in Education Needs Encouragement

Academic technologist, Javier Atenas, points out that the culture of sharing in education is still in its early stages. Without encouragement to produce and reuse open educational resources, many academics do not naturally share. Some potential barriers may be the perceived loss of control with sharing the results of many hours of hard work and secondarily there may be a worry that other academics will criticize their educational materials. Showing academics the OER repositories to search… Continue

Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:10pm

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At 1:12pm on April 19, 2012, Joe Wilson said…: Good to meet you too and hope we can set heather on fire in scotland looking forward to working with you and the community colleges

At 4:04pm on July 15, 2011, Monica fusich said…: Yes, same here. I enjoyed the presentation and learning about this group! Monica

At 10:47am on February 15, 2011, Lynda Case Lambert said…: Una,

I could have sworn I signed up over a year ago when I did the peer review, but you didn't have my email address listed, so I signed up again. Missed you at the meeting this morning.

Lynda

At 1:24pm on January 7, 2011, Lynn Aaron said…: The book is: Web Style Guide Online
at
http://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/index.html

Lynn

At 7:19pm on December 20, 2010, Laura Garcia said…: Hi Una - Thanks for the welcome. I am looking for open source texts for my communication classes. I teach in Ohio - our college is in Washington County and we are a state college hence the name Washington State Community College - but most people do mistake us for being in the state of Washington.

At 11:27am on November 29, 2010, Joe Fields said…: Hi Una,

My book is called "A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Mathematics," and it is
hosted at SCSU -- http://www.southernct.edu/~fields/GIAM/

I'd love it if it could be added to the College Open Textbooks list! It is licensed
under the GFDL.

The title may be slightly misleading. It is intended to be a "gentle introduction" to
the upper-division courses in the math major at a four-year school. (This is where
students often get derailed -- they are switching from courses that concentrate on
calculation to ones that mostly involve mathematical proof. I would guess that some
community colleges would have such a "transitions" course, but I looked at San Mateo's
website and they don't seem to have one. Although one never knows, perhaps they
would be interested in adding such a course to their curriculum. They do have several
courses beyond the calculus, and a "transition" or "foundations" course is often placed
between the calculus and courses like their Math 268 - "Discrete Mathematics"

Best wishes,
Joe

At 6:07am on November 25, 2010, Joe Fields said…: Hi Una,
I do indeed work with Rebecca Hedreen! I have recently finished an open math text and was seeking her advice about marketing when she recommended this site to me. Rebecca is a tremendous asset to our University!
Best,
Joe

At 10:39am on November 1, 2010, Steve Acker said…: Hi Una,

I remember well and though tyou a trooper to show up to work with such a head cold. Just talked with Kevin and glad you all continue your enterprising ways.
regards,
sa

At 1:23pm on September 3, 2010, Micheline said…: Una,

Thank you. I enjoy working with you!

Cheers,

Micheline

At 11:16am on April 5, 2010, Scott Rains said…: Una,

Yes I'm at Benetech HQ on California Ave across from Stanford Campus Mon-Thur. I see you listed as Los Altos. Are you on campus at Foothills?

Scott