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Online Events for Open Education Week

Posted on March 8, 2016 by geoffcain

This reminder was sent in by Una Daly: This week (March 7th – 11th) is Open Education Week worldwide, and there are 60 free online and local events to promote the benefits of OER.  The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) … Continue reading →

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New Art Resource: Artsy

Posted on January 21, 2016 by geoffcain

Okay, “new” to me but this is really worth passing on to others. What is Artsy? “Artsy features the world’s leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, art fairs, and benefit auctions, all in one place. Our growing database of … Continue reading →

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Open Education is More Than Just Free Books

Posted on November 20, 2015 by geoffcain

I miss Jim Groom at OpenEd15 – I miss his viewpoint and energy. He knows I am a big fan (something that blows around a lot of hot air :-). Jim Groom tweeted today: “The unfortunate equation of open education … Continue reading →

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OERs and Accessibility

Posted on November 18, 2015 by geoffcain

It was a great morning at Open Ed 2015. I spent the morning in sessions with Amanda Coolidge, Sue Doner, Sam Johnson, Tara Robertson, Skip Stahl, Jutta Treviranus because I am particularly interested in the connections between OERs and instructional … Continue reading →

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Science and Biology Open Textbooks from BCcampus

Posted on March 19, 2015 by geoffcain

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 →

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Implementing an Open Textbook in an Online Biology Lab Course

Posted on November 20, 2014 by geoffcain

This was the presentation I gave today on our course design for instructor Chris Callahan’s online biology class: After spending some time here talking to people about this, I have come up with some great ideas about better integrating the … Continue reading →

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Digital Loeb: Rebirth of the Book?

Posted on November 2, 2014 by geoffcain

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 →

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David Harris of OpenStax at Humboldt State

Posted on October 30, 2014 by geoffcain

The ALS and OER conversation is a campus discussion group looking at affordable learning resources and strategies. In our next meeting on Nov. 6th, 12:00 – 2:00 PM in the HSU Library “Fishbowl”, David Harris of OpenStax will be visiting … Continue reading →

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Open Textbooks in the Humboldt State Library

Posted on October 8, 2014 by geoffcain

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 →

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