Dean of Continuing Education and Distance Learning Gary Matkin speaks with Education-Portal.com about the OpenCourseWare project. Click here to read it.
Open Textbooks
200 attend OpenTextbookEvent (live and virtually)
The recent UCI OpenCourseWare forum on Open Textbooks was a success from several points of view – attendance, substantive discussion, and, hopefully, a new impetus toward authoring and adoption. Eric Frank, President of FlatWorld Knowledge, a for-profit open text publisher, described a business model where authors do better by the fourth quarter of sales and […]
Open Textbooks – a timely subject
Can open licensing of textbooks transform authoring, customization and student usage? Can it change the textbook publishing industry itself? These questions will be examined at our Open Textbook Forum on 1/26 at 4pm in AIRB-1030. And it is timely. See this NYTimes article. And don’t forget to register for the onsite or webcast forum: http://ocw.uci.edu/info/event.aspx.
Webinar for California and Texas Promotes Open Textbooks
The drumbeat keeps getting louder textbooks that are financially accessible to all students. In the upcoming webinar, you can hear prominent open textbook advocates from the political, university and publishing sectors discuss the latest in this area – from legislation to university initiatives. Here is the webinar link – and the corresponding registration link here.
Open Textbooks: Gaining Traction
Today’s NY Times article, “$200 Textbook vs. Free. You Do the Math.” shows just a few of the growing number of open-license textbook projects. We are sponsoring a talk by one of those mentioned, Flat World Knowledge, in October. In the article, Eric Frank says that even though his company’s textbook’s are offered for free […]
Open Textbook site boasts 200+ textbooks
There is a disclaimer that many of the texts listed have not been vetted, so use with care, but nevertheless this effort is in full swing in the California Community Colleges. See the discipline-specific listing here: http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/