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Showing posts with label Textbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Textbook. Show all posts
Friday, August 22, 2014

Open Textbooks at Humboldt State University

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The Jolly Giant Commons (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I presented the other day at Humboldt State University 's conference "...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Open Textbooks and Student Success

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Cable Green (Photo:  Jeffrey Beall ) The tirelessly brilliant and ubiquitous Cable Green sent out today's announcement fr...
Friday, November 15, 2013

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

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U.S. Senator Richard Durbin, Ill.  The cost of new textbooks has increased 82%, three times faster than inflation, over the last deca...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

OER: Neuro-Cloud: a new model of textbooks

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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 t...
Monday, December 31, 2012

OER: Saylor Foundation's New Bookshelf

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Saylor Foundation The Saylor Foundation is making spirits bright and starting the New Year right by ensuring that openly licensed, free ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Open Academics at the University of Minnesota

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The Richardsonian Romanesque Pillsbury Hall (1889) is one of the oldest buildings on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus....
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

OERs and Biology at Collge of the Redwoods

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On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 4:00 PM PST Geoff Cain & Wendy Riggs present on switch from a commercial textbook to open education resourc...
Friday, February 03, 2012

Beating the High Cost of Education with Open Textbooks

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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 a...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Apple Innovates Away Textbook Access and Affordabilty

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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...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

OERs: Why Commercial Electronic Textbooks Are No Bargain

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Earlier this month, there was a posting at the California State Library blog that said that, according to a Dayton College study , the savi...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Open Ed Conference: Are commercial publishers friend or foe of open education?

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Image by matthileo via Flickr Speakers: Eric Frank and Nicole Allen Are commercial publishers friend or foe of open education ? This ses...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Open Textbooks:
The College Student Speaks Out

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011 2:00-3:00 PM EST / 11:00AM-Noon PS T Moderator: Nicole Allen Textbook Advocate for the Student PIRGs and Directo...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

OER: The Myth of Commercial Textbook Reliability

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Image via Wikipedia An " OER " is an open education resource and the most common example is an open textbook . An open textbook is...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Orbis Pictus: The earliest picture textbook for children

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Image via Wikipedia I have been ranting all holiday about John Comenius ' textbook, Orbis Pictus , from 1658. It is the first known illu...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Open Education Resources Require Open Teaching

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Image via Wikipedia I have been reading though the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services " Roadmap 2012 " and there are some...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Open Textbooks, Open Doors

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Image via Wikipedia On May 6th, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM in College of the Redwood's Lakeview Room, I held a workshop on open texts call...