Category Archives: Open textbook

Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012

Posted on February 22, 2012 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaEfforts to Expand Access to Education and Knowledge to be Featured in Global Events CAMBRIDGE, Mass., – (February 21, 2012) –The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces today the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012. Open Education Week … 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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Apple Innovates Away Textbook Access and Affordabilty

Posted on January 30, 2012 by geoffcain

I wanted to write a few notes here about many of the questions and comments I have read on Twitter and elsewhere about the iPad and textbook authoring. Two things that Apple does well is marketing and innovation. Sometimes though, … Continue reading →

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Another reason textbooks are so expensive!

Posted on September 28, 2011 by geoffcain

I came home from work today and going through the mail, I found an piece of mail from Bedford/St. Martin’s. It is a full color brochure, printed on thick card stock advertising their book, Approaching Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing. It … Continue reading →

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Hubris 2.0: OERs, Publishers, and Federal Money

Posted on May 27, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaIn “Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Education Resources” a nice little article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed this week, Blackboard lets us know that the sky is falling because of government funding of open education resources … Continue reading →

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OER: The Myth of Commercial Textbook Reliability

Posted on March 19, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaAn “OER” is an open education resource and the most common example is an open textbook. An open textbook is a book, most often electronic, that is licensed in a way that allows re-use, repurposing, editing, and republishing. … Continue reading →

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OER, Open Textbooks, and Innovation

Posted on January 22, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaIn a recent blog posting from Cable Green, he posted a note on the new grant from the Dept. of Labor which is requiring an open license on all materials built for the grant, which means that the … Continue reading →

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An Open Textbook as an Open Community

Posted on November 3, 2010 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaOpen textbooks can sustain a community of practitioners in a given field. With commercial texts, and texts that are not truly openly licensed, English instructors can’t get together, make decisions about the needs of their students, and change … Continue reading →

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Open Education Resources Require Open Teaching

Posted on October 24, 2010 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaI have been reading though the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services “Roadmap 2012” and there are some very important points made in the report: “OER are understood to be an important element of policies that want to leverage … Continue reading →

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