JISC commissioned a study of eTextbooks business models. Several textbook publishers, e-book aggregator and universities are involved in piloting a range of business models for e-textbooks as part of the second phase of the
Study on the Economic Impact of e-textbook Business Models.
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Connexions is pleased to announce the second annual Connexions Conference.
Connexions Conference 2010 will be in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, February 2,
2010.
Connexions Conference 2010 will give you the opportunity to build
relationships with others in the Connexions/Open Education Resources family,
be they users, authors, endorsing agencies or funders. Connexions Conference
2010 will have sessions on content projects from both major content
producers as well as grassroots content projec…
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The U.S. Department of Education awarded
Bookshare $100K to make open textbooks accessible. Initially, 16 math and science open textbooks approved for California K-12 students are planned for release. The textbooks will be available freely under an open license to all individuals without proof of disability. According to a
PRWeb press relea…
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The
Community College Open Textbook Collaborative provides peer-reviews of over 30 open textbooks in several disciplines. Take a look:
http://collegeopentextbooks.org/reviews.html
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* Smarthistory: Art History Conversation (2009)
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The American Graduation Initiative bill passed the House and is
now under consideration in the Senate.
ACCT's H.R. 3221 summary of community college related items within the bill can be found at:
http://www.acct.org/HR3221-Summary.pdf.
Open Online Education (Section 505)
"The Open Online Education program is a competitive grant program that will
support grants to develop, evaluate and disseminate freely avail…
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Even if you have already visited the
OER Consortium list of open textbooks before, consider revisiting because dozens of open textbooks were newly posted for a variety of disciplines today.
See below for just a few of the many newly posted open textbooks.
Anthropology
Life in the Palaeozoic
Business…
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Added by Judy Baker on November 4, 2009 at 6:53pm —
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What are the advantages of adopting an electronic textbook?
Electronic textbooks allow for -
* electronic bookmarking and highlighting
* keyword searches
* electronic mail
* links to Web resources related to the topic
* ways for teachers to customize the information for their students
* hyperlinked definitions and word pronunciation
* language translation
What are some other advantages?
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Added by Judy Baker on November 3, 2009 at 8:56am —
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More details about the Obama's vision for open online courses for community colleges are slowly emerging. In his
Politico op-ed piece, titled "
Moving college into the 21st century," Arne Duncan, Secretary of the Department of Education speaks to the unbundling of higher education to improve access:
"Beyond these investments in our future, one part of the AGI (Amrican Graduation Initiative) has the potential to h…
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Added by Judy Baker on October 23, 2009 at 11:37am —
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Steve Hargadon, Founder of Classroom 2.0, announces that Esther Wojcicki will give an online presentation tonight about Creative Commons, Open Education, and a new "Journalism 2.0" project she's helping to launch.
"Esther Wojcicki has been a Journalism/English teacher at Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, California for the past 25 years where she built the journalism program from a small group of 20 students in 1985 to the largest high school journalism program in the nation winning major nat…
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Added by Judy Baker on October 21, 2009 at 12:23pm —
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A recent
study by the
Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) on faculty attitudes toward affordable and open textbooks reveals no surprises, however this information provides greater insight than existing anecdotal evidence.
The results indicate that faculty need a greater diversity of open textbook choices than what currently exists in order to achieve widespread adoption. The repor…
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You may be interested in today's
Huffington Post article by Curriki's Barbara Kurshan about various sustainability models for OER. See
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Added by Judy Baker on October 13, 2009 at 4:48pm —
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Two articles in the
September 2009 issue of the
Senate Rostrum newsletter address the topic of open educational resources, open textbooks, and articulation.
Barbara Illowsky authored the first article, titled: "And the Textbook Is ... Free? Introduction to Open Educational Resources," in which she explains how faculty can impact educational costs for students by adopting open textbooks.
Richard…
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Today, an essay was posted to the Publius Project on "
A Brief Overview of Public Policy on OER from California Community Colleges to the Obama Administration" authored by Carolina Rossini and Erhardt Graeff of the Berkman Center at Harvard University.
Excerpt from the essay:
"OER encourages and enables the open production, sharing of, and access to educational content and resources. This alone is a valuable societal good, increasing the value…
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Info about Senator Durbin's Legislation to Make College Textbooks More Affordable posted on
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Added by Judy Baker on September 28, 2009 at 10:07pm —
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ECS.org Clearinghouse provides this helpful summary if state policies and intiatives, titled: '
State Initiatives Regarding Electronic or Open Source Textbooks' By Noe M. Cisneros, September 2009.
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Added by Judy Baker on September 28, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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A
campus bookstore website links students to free textbooks used in Queen’s University courses. Find out details from Jeff Young’s article “
College Bookstores Hope to Turn Their Web Sites Into E-Book Portals” in The Wired Campus.
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Added by Judy Baker on September 26, 2009 at 10:17pm —
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Inside Higher Ed describes
Orange Grove Texts Plus in a recent article:
Free, But at What Cost? Scroll to bottom to see comments about the article posted by CCOT Collaborative Program Director, Jacky Hood.
As reported by
The Orange Grove, the 2009 Florida Legislature requested (HB 7121 or SB 844) that an Open Access Textbooks…
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Stay up-to-date with open educational resources news and issues at the
OER Consortium Blog,
OER Center Twitter, and
educ8ter Twitter.
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Find out how one educator uses reading methodologies and techniques to improve online text comprehension. In his recent blog,
Towards More Effective Online Reading, Willy Kjellstrom describes his exploration of how to use a tool like
The Awesome Highlighter,
Diigo’s highlighting and notes feature,…
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