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OERs: Why Commercial Electronic Textbooks Are No Bargain
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
Posted in Business, OER, Open education resources, Open textbooks, publishing, Textbook
Tagged Publishing and Printing, Renting
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OER Books & Journals: Don’t forget Europe!
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
Posted in Humanities, Journals, OER, Open textbooks, publishing
Tagged Open access, Open-access journal, Peer review
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OER: The Myth of Commercial Textbook Reliability
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
Posted in education, educause, OER, Open education, Open educational resources, Open source, Open textbook, publishing, Textbook
Tagged E-book
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Open Textbooks: A Diversity of Voices in Open Learning
Image via WikipediaOpen textbooks are textbooks that are released with an open license, preferably with a Creative Commons “attribution” license. The textbooks under that license should be free to students and free to instructors to download, reuse, and remix. In … Continue reading
How Open Source Changes Business Models
Image via WikipediaOne great thing that open source does is change how businesses work. Open textbooks are a great example. The publishers are doing a little too late in their attempt to fix the financial issues around textbook costs and … Continue reading
On the Greatly Exaggerated Death of Culture
I really thought Culture (I mean the exclusive education of privilege maintained by privilege) would have died years ago. Sven Birkerts and others have been predicting the death of The Book, Google is supposed be making us stupid, and instant … Continue reading
