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Open Textbooks at Humboldt State University
The Jolly Giant Commons (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I presented the other day at Humboldt State University‘s conference “Institute for Student Success.” I was really pleased that the organizers seem to recognize economic barriers to education as a factor in student … 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
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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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: Saylor Foundation’s New Bookshelf
Saylor Foundation The Saylor Foundation is making spirits bright and starting the New Year right by ensuring that openly licensed, free textbooks remain freely available to students. You may have seen their press release. Their “Bookshelf” page is already up … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open education resources, Open textbooks, Textbook, textbooks
Tagged E-book, Saylor Foundation
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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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OERs and Biology at Collge of the Redwoods
On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 4:00 PM PST Geoff Cain & Wendy Riggs present on switch from a commercial textbook to open education resources for a Biology course for non-Biology majors at College of the Redwoods, a two-year community … Continue reading
Beating the High Cost of Education with Open Textbooks
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
Apple Innovates Away Textbook Access and Affordabilty
I wanted to write a few notes here about many of the questions and comments I have read on Twitter and elsewhere about the iPad and textbook authoring. Two things that Apple does well is marketing and innovation. Sometimes though, … Continue reading
OERs: Why Commercial Electronic Textbooks Are No Bargain
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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Tagged Publishing and Printing, Renting
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