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Category Archives: OER
Digital Loeb: Rebirth of the Book?
Maybe now that Harvard Press is doing it, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that the book isn’t being killed off by the internet. I have a number of posts on this blog addressing the so-called death of … Continue reading
Open Textbooks in the Humboldt State Library
The library at Humboldt State University provides online research guides for students in nearly all disciplines (seriously, it even includes Kinesiology). Our new Library Dean and open textbook guru, Cyril Oberlander set Tim Miller and Sarah Fay Philips to work on … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open Educational Resource, Open textbooks
Tagged humboldt, oer, oer adoption, open textbooks
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Death of the Book Redux
I don’t know if this is related to climate change or the polar vortex, but the yearly declaration that the book is dead or dying is early this year. Naomi S. Baron, in her article “How E-Reading Threatens the Humanities” … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, OER, Open textbooks, Reading, text
Tagged birkerts, books, ebooks, etext, literature, reading
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Reports on the Death of the Book are Greatly Exaggerated
I was at a poetry reading at the library a while back and one of the poets had a poem about how lost in cyberspace everyone is and the implication was that he was seeing the end of print culture … Continue reading
Open Textbooks and Student Success
Cable Green (Photo: Jeffrey Beall) The tirelessly brilliant and ubiquitous Cable Green sent out today’s announcement from Creative Commons about the U.S. PIRG Education Fund report called, “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market: How Students Respond to High Textbook Costs and Demand … Continue reading
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Tagged student success'
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eLearning 101: An Open Class for New Online Learners
Humboldt State University (Wikipedia) Our new class is slowly taking shape. The course will be based on our old DE 101 (Distance Ed 101) which in turn was based on HIM 100 (a Health Information Management class where we introduced … Continue reading
Posted in badges, connectivism, ds106, elearning101, MOOC, OER
Tagged orientation, studetn support, Tacoma Community College
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Durbin, Franken Introduce Legislation to Help Make College Textbooks More Affordable
U.S. Senator Richard Durbin, Ill. The cost of new textbooks has increased 82%, three times faster than inflation, over the last decade. [WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Al Franken (D-MN) today introduced legislation designed to help … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open educational resources, Open textbooks, Textbook
Tagged Nicole Allen, U.S. PIRG
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OER: SALSA – an open source syllabus builder
The open source, web-based SALSA (Styled & Accessible Learning Service Agreements) is a syllabus authoring tool from Utah State University’s Center for Innovative Design & Instruction. It is based on the design of the PDF Syllabus Builder. No registration of … Continue reading
Open Ed 13: How to Make It Work for Faculty: A study of how Washington Community and Technical Colleges Use Oer
Boyoung Chae and Connie Broughton discuss the Open Course Library for Washington State’s Community and Technical Colleges. “While new open educational resources are being continuously created, little data exists on how faculty in higher education actually use and perceive open … Continue reading
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Tagged oer adoption, open course library, open courseware, opened13, WA SBCTC, Washington
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Open Ed 13: A Red Hat for OER: Lumen’s Journey
Kim Thanos and David Wiley talk about their business, Lumen Learning. “After a decade and $100M US in foundation funding, an incredible amount of high quality open educational resources exist which are only rarely used in formal settings. The situation … Continue reading