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Biology eAcademy: Principles of Biology
Extracted from file:LA2-NSRW-1-0230.jpg Brown bear sketch from scaned textbook (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Affordable Learning Solutions, Principles of Biology, Nature. This is a commercial online textbook that is low cost. http://als.csuprojects.org. Each part of the textbook is an online module that … Continue reading
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 Money: The revolution will happen without you.
Image via Wikipedia“On the one hand, information wants to be expensive because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free because the cost of getting … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open educational resources, Open textbooks, textbooks
Tagged Open content, Stephen Downes, Stewart Brand, UNESCO
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Spotlight on Innovation: Attacking High Text Costs While Improving Outcomes
Spotlight On Innovation: Attacking High Text Costs While Improving Outcomes Date: Monday, April 11th, 2011Time: 3:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm PTDuration: 50 minutes followed by a live Q&A session As the high cost of college texts negatively impacts student … Continue reading
Posted in elearning, OER, open texts, textbooks
Tagged OCLP, Ohio, Ohio State University, University System of Ohio, Virginia State University
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Open Textbooks: The College Student Speaks Out
Tuesday, April 5, 20112:00-3:00 PM EST / 11:00AM-Noon PST Moderator: Nicole AllenTextbook Advocate for the Student PIRGs and Director of the Make Textbooks Affordable campaign. In the national debate surrounding textbook affordability and adoption, the student voice often goes unheard. … Continue reading
Posted in opentextbooks, Textbook, textbooks
Tagged E-book, Nicole Allen, Student, Student PIRGs
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OER Africa: Course Development Handbook
Image via WikipediaI am currently reading Santosh Panda’s textbook Handbook on In-House Style for Course Development. This would be recommended reading for new course developers or distance education admins who are new to the field or need to develop a … Continue reading
Posted in constructivism, education, Instructional Design, OER, Open educational resources, open texts, textbooks
Tagged South Africa
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The Google Art Project
The Google Art Project has created a “street view” visit to a dozen museums and put up a library of high definition images from the participating museums. This will be a great resource for art and history instructors and everyone … Continue reading
Open Education Resources – Free Math Textbooks
Image via WikipediaCable Green was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education in an article called “State of Washington to Offer Online Materials as Texts” by Martha Ann Overland. I loved the article because it promotes all of the things … Continue reading
Posted in calculus, OER, Open educational resources, opentextbooks, textbooks
Tagged precalculus
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Open Textbooks: A Diversity of Voices in Open Learning
Image via WikipediaOpen textbooks are textbooks that are released with an open license, preferably with a Creative Commons “attribution” license. The textbooks under that license should be free to students and free to instructors to download, reuse, and remix. In … Continue reading