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CCC Chancellor's Office seeks Intermediate Algebra OER

The Chancellor’s Office for the California Community Colleges is in the process of researching Open Education Resource (OER) courseware and/or modules for Intermediate Algebra for a special project under development. If you know of any OER courseware/modules that the Chancellor's Office can review as a part of this research effort it would be greatly appreciated. Please send that information or any links to information on this topic to LeBaron Woodyard, Dean of Academic…

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Added by Judy Baker on January 6, 2011 at 7:06pm — No Comments

Open Textbooks Save the Day - video

Check out this video - Open Textbooks Save the Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7JHnW3GhkA

Feel free to use or remix it for promoting the use of open textbooks on your campus.

- Judy

Added by Judy Baker on August 8, 2010 at 9:34pm — No Comments

OER Grant Reviewers Needed ASAP

The U.S. Department of Labor seeks expert reviewers for an upcoming grant competition related to open educational resources and online learning.

If you are interested, please submit your credentials ASAP via this webpage:…

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Added by Judy Baker on August 6, 2010 at 12:14pm — 1 Comment

Open Textbooks for Computer Sciences Presentation on Aug. 11th

Topic: Computer Sciences Instruction at Foothill College…

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Added by Judy Baker on July 29, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Using Creative Commons Licensed Material in Your Classroom

ProfHacker article in today's The Chronicle of Higher Education advocates Using Creative Commons Licensed Material in Your Classroom (http://bit.ly/agHGVS). Lots of details missing in this article so add your own comments.

Added by Judy Baker on May 10, 2010 at 2:38pm — No Comments

Analysis of Digital Repositories

An article titled "Digital Repositories and Possibilities of Their Integration into Higher Education" was recently published in the March issue of International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), Vol 5 (2010). http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/1212

Abstract

Due to abundance of information available on the Internet, society seeks new types of…

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Added by Judy Baker on March 28, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Way to Support OER via Social Media

Literacy is Priceless blog on 10 ways to support open education through social media. This list left out networking with OER community using NING.

Added by Judy Baker on March 22, 2010 at 8:21pm — No Comments

Video on Textbook Affordability by CA State Student Association

Take a look at this compelling "Affordable Learning Soutions for 2010" video recently released by the California State Student Association about textbook affordability.

Added by Judy Baker on March 10, 2010 at 10:17pm — 1 Comment

Produce, Publish and Distribute a Textbook

In January 2010, Leigh Blackall posted a blog on "How to produce, publish and distribute a textbook these days." His blog posting describes the steps he employed for textbooks at Otago Polytechnic.

Added by Judy Baker on March 6, 2010 at 7:03pm — No Comments

US National Ed Tech Plan Embraces Open Textbooks

As noted by today's Creative Commons blog posting, the recently released United States Department of Education 2010 National Educational Technology Plan (pdf) embraces the use of open textbooks and open educational resources. The Plan cites the …

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Added by Judy Baker on March 6, 2010 at 10:50am — No Comments

Open-source academic content

Julie Smith David, director of ASU’s Center for Advancing Business through Information Technology says: "open-source textbooks could spawn a new community for developing and contributing learning materials. In the long run, if you have an open source community — a faculty — about a functional area or course, they can create much more content than a textbook,” she said. “I think open-source textbooks are a very small piece of what we really…

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Added by Judy Baker on February 28, 2010 at 6:41pm — No Comments

Open Textbook Lens at Connexions

The Community College Open Textbook Collaborative endorsement Lens at Connexions is now BRANDED! See for yourself: http://cnx.org/lenses/ccotp/endorsements. Nine open textbooks are endorsed.

Added by Judy Baker on February 7, 2010 at 3:43pm — No Comments

Apply Learning Theory for Online Course Textbook Selection

In his December 2009 JOLT article titled "Application of Contemporary Learning Theory to Online Course Textbook Selection," Mission College accounting instructor Gregory Mostyn offers suggestions "to improve online learning outcomes while simultaneously containing institutional and student costs. This may be particularly useful at the community college level, where the majority of online classes are offered and student… Continue

Added by Judy Baker on January 15, 2010 at 12:02pm — No Comments

How to write Your Own Open Textbook

Interested in writing your own open textbook? Take a look at today's blog posting by Leigh Blackall that tells how to use WikiEducator and Lulu to make it happen - "How to produce, publish and distribute a textbook these days"

Added by Judy Baker on January 13, 2010 at 4:20pm — No Comments

News and information about open textbooks

For up-to-the-minute news and information about open textbooks and open educational resources, please visit @OER_center on Twitter.

Added by Judy Baker on January 13, 2010 at 10:47am — No Comments

Helpful Chart that Compares eBooks with Open Textbooks

A fall 2009 report by Noe M. Cisneros of the Education Commission of the States (http://www.ecs.org), titled "State Initiatives Regarding Electronic or Open Source Textbooks,' has a helpful chart that compares ebooks with open textbooks. The report also lists the following examples of Open Textbook Projects:

1. The California Open Source Textbook Project is a…

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Added by Judy Baker on January 11, 2010 at 3:59pm — 1 Comment

To Use a Textbook or Not?

"Clearly, the issue of whether to use a textbook is complex, and it is dependent upon course and curricular goals. Students (and colleagues) expect a textbook; yet often, the textbook is not used, except as a reference. Most textbooks are not written with current evidence about best teaching and learning practices in mind, so they may be difficult to integrate into the design and presentation of a course that is based on this evidence. Because many instructors provide detailed online or… Continue

Added by Judy Baker on December 30, 2009 at 1:46pm — No Comments

Flat World Knowledge & Bookshare Join to Make Open Textbooks Accessible

Flat World Knowledge & Bookshare have partnered to make open textbooks available in accessible formats. See the Press Release at http://bit.ly/6ElIeT.

Added by Judy Baker on December 14, 2009 at 10:55am — No Comments

FYI - CACS Summer Textbook Summit

CACS Summer Textbook Summit

Visit www.cacsonline.org to see details and to register. Cost is $25.00 per person. Each summit will run from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
CACS North Summer Summit
Skyline College

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
CACS South Summer Summit
Cal Poly Pomona

Added by Judy Baker on July 1, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments