Category Archives: Open educational resources

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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Open Textbooks and Student Success

Posted on February 1, 2014 by geoffcain

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 →

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Durbin, Franken Introduce Legislation to Help Make College Textbooks More Affordable

Posted on November 15, 2013 by geoffcain

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 →

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Open Ed 13: OER and Solving th Textbook Crisis

Posted on November 7, 2013 by geoffcain

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 →

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OER: Neuro-Cloud: a new model of textbooks

Posted on February 21, 2013 by geoffcain

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 →

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OER: 12 Sources of Open Textbooks

Posted on January 29, 2013 by geoffcain

(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 →

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A World Map of Open Educational Resources Initiatives

Posted on November 9, 2012 by geoffcain

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 →

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Open Academics at the University of Minnesota

Posted on October 31, 2012 by geoffcain

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 →

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OER Adopter Communities: the Sustainability Factor in Open Education

Posted on September 19, 2012 by geoffcain

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

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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