Category Archives: Open textbook

Open Textbooks at Humboldt State University

Posted on August 22, 2014 by geoffcain

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 →

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Open Ed 13: A Red Hat for OER: Lumen’s Journey

Posted on November 7, 2013 by geoffcain

Kim Thanos and David Wiley talk about their business, Lumen Learning. “After a decade and $100M US in foundation funding, an incredible amount of high quality open educational resources exist which are only rarely used in formal settings. The situation … Continue reading →

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Global Open Textbook Projects: Pathways to Adoption

Posted on November 7, 2013 by geoffcain

Open Textbook bill (Photo credit: opensourceway) “Mary Burgess of the BC Open Textbook Project will discuss how she and her team are working to produce 40 Open Textbooks on a restricted budget and tight timeline. She will describe their work … 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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Open Textbooks: Community and Sustainability

Posted on December 19, 2012 by geoffcain

Redwood Majesty (Photo: MizzD) In our discussions with faculty and administrators about free, openly licensed textbooks, I still get questions about “sustainability.” Those questions really boil down to “who is going to pay for all of that work?” Often the … Continue reading →

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Flat World Knowledge Falls Flat

Posted on November 4, 2012 by geoffcain

For use to open – free- education resources. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I am very disappointed in Flat World Knowledge‘s decision to end free access to students as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education. I was always very suspect of this company … Continue reading →

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Keeping Open Education Resources Open

Posted on September 27, 2012 by geoffcain

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What does the “open” in “open education resources” mean? What it should mean is free to reuse, remix and share. If your open education resources are locked up with a proprietary platform, they are no longer 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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Parallels in Open Software and Open Textbooks

Posted on August 10, 2012 by geoffcain

Dr. Cable Green speaking to Creative Commons staff (Photo credit: tvol) I was reading this morning about what makes a successful open source project and what makes one not so successful, and I found a number of parallels between successful … 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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