Category Archives: Open education resources

Implementing OERs and Open Textbooks

Posted on August 22, 2012 by geoffcain

The Engineering Building at the University of Leicester. Designed by James Stirling.(Wikipedia) There is still a lot of energy out there around the creation of open content and the licensing of existing content with open licences. There are many worthwhile … Continue reading →

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Parallels in Open Software and Open Textbooks

Posted on August 10, 2012 by geoffcain

Dr. Cable Green speaking to Creative Commons staff (Photo credit: tvol) I was reading this morning about what makes a successful open source project and what makes one not so successful, and I found a number of parallels between successful … Continue reading →

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OER: Indigenous People’s Reader

Posted on May 15, 2012 by geoffcain

Jacqui Cain has edited a reader for developmental English classes that includes indigenous people’s stories from around the world: stories translated from oral traditions. She did this presentation for the 2012 Online Teaching Conference which starts in June as part … Continue reading →

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Beating the High Cost of Education with Open Textbooks

Posted on February 3, 2012 by geoffcain

I wrote this as a Tech Beat article for the Times Standard: Jonas is a 20-year-old College of the Redwoods student. He works part-time at a local auto shop and wants to one day open his own business. He needs … Continue reading →

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OERs: Why Commercial Electronic Textbooks Are No Bargain

Posted on January 19, 2012 by geoffcain

Earlier this month, there was a posting at the California State Library blog that said that, according to a Dayton College study, the savings for students using electronic textbooks was only a dollar: “Despite the promise that digital textbooks can … Continue reading →

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Open Content Licensing for Educators Workshop

Posted on December 12, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via CrunchBaseThis in from Cable Green: Creative Commons, the OER Foundation and Ako Aotearoa announce an international professional development opportunity for all educators. What: Open content licensing for educators workshop (#OCL4Ed)Where: OnlineWhen: 23 -27 January 2012Cost: Free Registration: Open … Continue reading →

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Call for Open Education Practices

Posted on November 16, 2011 by geoffcain

Image by Matthias Ripp via Flickr This is from Abel Caine: UNESCO is a member of the Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) which aimed to create a new open educational practices (OEP) framework. Open educational practices were defined as practices … Continue reading →

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Openness and Learning Analytics

Posted on October 26, 2011 by geoffcain

Image by nep via FlickrSpeakers: John Rinderle Norman BierRevise/Remix can build a 1000 points of OER light. Can these lights converge to fire authentic learning analytics & share-alike data models? Conventional wisdom in the OER community maintains that one of … Continue reading →

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Open Ed Conference: From Shared to Open: The evolution of open education in Washington State

Posted on October 25, 2011 by geoffcain

Image by textbookrebellion Speakers: Tom Caswell  & Connie Broughton Learn how Washington’s colleges went from a few system shared courses in 1997 to developing 81 courses as part of the Open Course Library. Washington’s State Board for Community and Technical Colleges … Continue reading →

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Bill Strips DOL Grants of OER Provisions

Posted on October 4, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaGot a note this morning from Cable Green via Kim Thanos. Kim says that if the Kaleidoscope grant was funded under these restrictions, we could not have proceeded with the course developments. The bill to be discussed appears … Continue reading →

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