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Category Archives: Open educational resources
Science and Biology Open Textbooks from BCcampus
Sue Schmidt, the NANSLO/CHEO project coordinator for WICHE sent along some great links to openly licensed science and biology textbooks from BCcampus. I think the books and the model of peer review they are following could become of particular interest … Continue reading
Posted in Open educational resources, Open textbooks
Tagged British Columbia, oer, open textbooks, peer review
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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
Posted in OER, Open educational resources, Open textbooks, Textbook
Tagged student success'
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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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Open Ed 13: OER and Solving th Textbook Crisis
Textbook Stack (Photo credit: greenasian) “The average U.S. college student spends more than $1,000 per year on textbooks and supplies, a significant expense on top of already burdensome college costs. Textbook prices continue to soar four times faster than inflation, … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open educational resources, Open source
Tagged OpenCourseWare, opened13
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OER: Neuro-Cloud: a new model of textbooks
I am really excited about Neuro-Cloud. I heard about it in a tweet from Creative Commons this morning and went to take a look. This is a textbook that is being created by a community of neuroscientists who first began … Continue reading
Posted in connectivism, education, OER, Open education, Open educational resources, Open textbooks, Textbook
Tagged neuro-cloud, neurocloud
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OER: 12 Sources of Open Textbooks
(Photo credit: opensourceway) With the State Department’s announcement and posts on twitter about failed business models, I think this is a good time to revisit how to find actual free, openly licensed textbooks. There are many ways to find free, … Continue reading
Posted in Open educational resources, Open textbook, opentextbooks
Tagged Open access, Saylor Foundation
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A World Map of Open Educational Resources Initiatives
Open Educational Resources (Wikipedia) A world map of Open Educational Resources initiatives: Can the global OER community design and build it together? First, an International discussion 12 – 30 November 2012 * Next, local discussions – organized locally An international … Continue reading
Open Academics at the University of Minnesota
The Richardsonian Romanesque Pillsbury Hall (1889) is one of the oldest buildings on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was really excited this morning to see Stacy Olson’s tweet (@OlsonStacy) about the University of Minnesota’s Open … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open educational resources, opentextbooks, Textbook, textbooks
Tagged OlsonStacy, stacy olson, university of minnesota
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OER Adopter Communities: the Sustainability Factor in Open Education
Open Textbooks from the Open Course Library (Photo credit: caswell_tom) Una Daly has invited you to the event ‘September 25 OER Adopter Communities: the Sustainability Factor in Open Education’ on College Open Textbooks Community! Check out the entire Fall 2012 … Continue reading
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OER Policy Registry: Request for Help
Image via CrunchBaseCable Green just lit the Bat Signal! Greetings Open Colleagues, The open community shares a need for more information to help us with our work. We know, for example, that there are many policies supporting open education at … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open education, Open educational resources, policy
Tagged New Zealand, UNESCO
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