{"id":521,"date":"2014-09-26T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?page_id=521"},"modified":"2019-03-07T22:40:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:40:43","slug":"open-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/open-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">My last presentation on open textbooks for Green River College:<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/present\/embed?id=ajjf9xgqx59x_315dvq46cf&amp;size=m\" width=\"555\" height=\"451\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Some Background Information on OERs<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulwest.org\/public\/Background_and_action_paper_on_OER.pdf\">Background and Action Paper on OER<\/a>\u00a0by West &amp; Victor. This is a comprehensive over-view with information relevant to instructors and administrators.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<a style=\"cursor: text;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/post\/57915\">Open Educational Resources: A Definition<\/a>\u00a0by Stephen Downes<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">JISC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/openeducationalresources.pbworks.com\/w\/page\/24836860\/What-are-Open-Educational-Resources\">What Are Open Education Resources?<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.col.org\/PublicationDocuments\/Basic-Guide-To-OER.pdf\">A Basic Guide to Open Education Resources<\/a>\u00a0by Kanwar &amp; Uvalic\u00b4-Trumbic\u00b4\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_63\/3597000\/3597933\/3\/print\/oerhandbookfinal-gray2.pdf\">Open Education Resources 1.0 for Educators<\/a>\u00a0by Seth Gurell<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/Articles\/2012\/11\/01\/Open-Resource-Training-101.aspx?=CTELR&amp;Page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Resource Training 101<\/a> by Bridget McCrea &#8211; Discusses some of the issues around OER and faculty support.<i> I was interviewed for this article.<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">OER and Open Textbook Hubs<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openwa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Washington<\/a> &#8211; A well-organized and comprehensive resource for finding open textbooks and OERs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Open Textbook Collections\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oerconsortium.org\/discipline-specific\/\">Community College Open Textbook Collaborative<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; I liked the amount of finished work represented by this project and the fact that they have English textbooks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/\">Connexions<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; This is a site that features reusable modules and learning objects as well as some texts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oercommons.org\/\">OER Commons<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; There are a lot of textbooks here that will be of interest to us. Under recommended resources click on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oercommons.org\/browse\/subject\/California%20Free%20Digital%20Textbook%20Initiative\">textbooks<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opensuny.org\/omp\/index.php\/SUNYOpenTextbooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open SUNY<\/a> &#8211; State University of New York&#8217;s open textbook initiative. Visit this site not only to find textbooks but to look at a sustainable model.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saylor.org\/books\/\">Saylor Foundation<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; This is the collection of open textbooks that were once freely available to students via Flatworld Knowledge who removed free access to these high quality openly licensed books.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/textbookrevolution.org\/\">Textbook Revolution<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; gathering place for books and reviews.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/Exemplary_Collection_of_Open_eLearning_Content_Repositories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merlotx.org\/find\/textbooks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MERLOTx<\/a>: This site was created by the California State University system to help instructors find open textbooks and OER.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Commercial Options?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Commercial options seem to be of a &#8220;bait and switch&#8221; variety: get the students using the free versions and then charge for them later in the name of &#8220;sustainability.&#8221;\u00a0Rather than relying on commercial textbook companies, we would rather see academic communities share resources to create, vette, and review open textbooks.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Project Sites for OER and Open Textbooks<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saylor.org\/books\/\">Saylor Foundation<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Complete courses using Creative Commons licensed materials, public domain, and original materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sofia.fhda.edu\/\">Sophia Open Content Initiative<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; This is from De Anza and a good example of a grant-driven project in California.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocwconsortium.org\/\">Open Courseware Consortium<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; This is a very useful portal to the international OER community.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oerconsortium.org\/\">Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; This project site has a lot of useful links.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grou.ps\/oercenter\">Open Education Resources Center for California<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; This is a good site for more information and resources in California.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/collegeopentextbooks.org\/\">Community College Open Textbook Collaborative<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a collection of colleges, agencies, and educational non-profits supporting open textbooks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curriki.org\/xwiki\/bin\/view\/Main\/\">Curriki<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;Curriki&#8217;s mission is to provide free, high-quality curricula and education resources to teachers, students and parents around the world.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Some Example Open Textbooks at College of the Redwoods<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The model at College of the Redwoods math department has faculty working together to create textbooks for the department.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mathrev.redwoods.edu\/PreAlgText\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">PreAlgebra Textbook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mathrev.redwoods.edu\/ElemAlgText\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Elementary Algebra<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mathrev.redwoods.edu\/IntAlgTextfixed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Intermediate Algebra<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/bio1sp12\/bio-1-online-textbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biology 1 (Riggs)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"toc1\" style=\"font-weight: bold; padding: 5px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Open Research Organizations<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"wiki_link_ext\" style=\"background-image: url('http:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/a.gif'); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.righttoresearch.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Right to Research<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a class=\"wiki_link_ext\" style=\"background-image: url('http:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/a.gif'); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arl.org\/sparc\/openaccess\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">SPARC<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"toc3\" style=\"font-weight: bold; padding: 5px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/page-edit.g?blogID=3438385&amp;pageID=3021457610621617990&amp;from=pencil\" name=\"Open Research-Open Research Journals, Repostories, and Search Tools\"><\/a>Open Research Journals, Repostories, and Search Tools<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px 0px;\">\n<li><b><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Journals<\/span><\/b>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px 0px;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The\u00a0<a class=\"wiki_link_ext\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url('http:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/a.gif'); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doaj.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Directory of Open Access Journals<\/a>\u00a0lists more than 2,800 journals that provide free access to the full text of their articles. You can search for a specific journal or browse by subject area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><a class=\"wiki_link_ext\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url('http:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/a.gif'); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doaj.org\/%3C\/li%3E%3Cli%3EThe\" rel=\"nofollow\">The SPARC Publisher Partner Program<\/a>\u00a0features non-profit organizations that are pursuing innovative business models to provide affordable, if not open access, to peer-reviewed research.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Search tools<\/span><\/b>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px 0px;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">OAIster is a tool to search archives compliant with the Open Archives Initiative metadata standard. This can include open-access journals, institutional and subject repositories, as well as other digital archives, which may include educational or historical content in addition to scholarly journal articles.<a class=\"wiki_link_ext\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url('http:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/a.gif'); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oaister.org\/%3C\/li%3E%3Cli%3EThe\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.oaister.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Directory of Open Access Journals also includes a tool to search the content of some journals listed.\u00a0<a class=\"wiki_link_ext\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url('http:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/a.gif'); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doaj.org\/%3C\/li%3E%3C\/ul%3E%3C\/ul%3E\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.doaj.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last presentation on open textbooks for Green River College: Some Background Information on OERs Background and Action Paper on OER\u00a0by West &amp; Victor. 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