Category Archives: OER

OER Policy Registry: Request for Help

Posted on March 26, 2012 by geoffcain

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 →

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OERs and Biology at Collge of the Redwoods

Posted on February 29, 2012 by geoffcain

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 →

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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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Open Education Week Coming in March

Posted on January 23, 2012 by geoffcain

This from Cable Green at Creative Commons: “Join your colleagues around the world to increase understanding about open education! Open Education Week will take place from 5-10 March 2012 online and in locally hosted events around the world. Image via … 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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OER Books & Journals: Don’t forget Europe!

Posted on January 5, 2012 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaI came across a great site in my morning reading: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) which “is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities … Continue reading →

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Help Shape Creative Commons 4.0

Posted on December 17, 2011 by geoffcain

Image by jorgeandresem via FlickrThis just in from the ubiquitous Cable Green: Creative Commons has officially opened the public discussion process for version 4.0 of the CC license suite. Please see the announcement below, and join the discussion by subscribing … 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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Public Domain Music Keeps Getting Better

Posted on November 29, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaHow does public domain music keep getting better? For one thing, the technology being used to clean up sound files has gotten significantly better. Many of the online archives of audio suffered from some pretty raw recordings from … 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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