Dr. Judy Baker, Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, recently developed a 12-module tutorial titled “Introduction to Open Educational Resources.” The tutorial is available to download as a 74 page Word document with links for educators interested in self-paced training.
This tutorial is designed to provide U.S. community college educators with the knowledge and skills necessary to find, use, develop, and share open educational resources. In addition, educators will discover a variety of worldwide efforts underway to make educational opportunity available to more people. While educators are likely to benefit personally and professionally from completing this tutorial, they may find that the biggest reward is in meeting others like themselves and joining in the OER Movement.
Tutorial contents include:
Module 1: Overview
Module 2: Open Courseware
Module 3: Copyright, Fair Use, and TEACH Act
Module 4: Tools to Identify and Select OER
Module 5: Accessibility and Universal Design
Module 6: OER Discipline-Specific Sources
Module 7: Use of Primary Sources
Module 8: Sources of Open Textbooks
Module 9: OER Development and Collaboration
Module 10: OER Delivery, Storage, and Organization
Module 11: Support for OER Use on Campus
Module 12: Future of OER Movement
Mark your calendar for a @ONE Lunch ‘n Learn Desktop Seminar, titled Save $$ with Free and Open Textbooks, scheduled for Thursday, November 6th at noon (PST). Dr. Judy Baker, Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, will demonstrate how community college faculty can begin to address the rising price of textbooks by adopting free or low-cost high-quality textbooks. Participants will learn how to find free learning content that they can download, customize, and disseminate to students.
The California State Auditor’s office has released its August 2008 report titled: “Affordability of College Textbooks.” Noteworthy is that this report gives a nod to the efforts of Community College Consoritium for Open Educational Resources to reduce the cost of textbooks and supports the need to address articulation issues.
Chapter 4 of the Report addresses open educational resources and California State University’s Digital Marketplace as solutions. The chapter summary states: “With the development and implementation of open educational resources and the Digital Marketplace, students at California’s public colleges and universities could soon obtain free or relatively affordable educational materials. Offering no‑cost, online educational content that is similar to that of traditional textbooks, open educational resources could change the ways in which instructors and students access instructional and research materials. The Digital Marketplace, a Web‑based project conceived by California State University (CSU), would allow faculty to substitute digitized educational materials for traditional printed textbooks, and instructors could select either free or fee‑based materials. The California Community Colleges (community colleges) support both initiatives, which are in the early stages of development, the University of California (UC) is in the process of collaborating with the community colleges to increase the use of open educational resources, and CSU is investing resources to advance the Digital Marketplace. If fully implemented, these strategies will likely change the role of campus bookstores and decrease textbook costs for students.”
Inside Higher Ed featured Collaborative Statistics in today’s article: Open Textbook Meets Community Colleges. This open textbook is available at Connexions.
The Community College Open Textbook Project seeks peer reviewers for Collaborative Statistics and other open textbooks. For details, contact Judy Baker, Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources at bakerjudy@foothill.edu.
The November - December 2007 issue of “Educational Technology” on Open-Access Educational Resources is now available online. Members of the CCCOER may be particularly interested in the article by C. Sidney Burrus titled: Connexions: An Open Educational Resource for the 21st Century.
A special issue of Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) focusing on open content is now available online. The special issue is a follow up to the OpenLearn conference held in November.
In particular, check out these articles:
2 – 6 p.m. on Friday, September 12, 2008
Boyd Hall, Sutter County Superintendent of Schools Office
970 Klamath Lane, Yuba City, CA 95993
For more information, contact Dr. Judy Baker at bakerjudy@foothill.edu
Two new articles about open textbooks have been published in the Summer 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Higher Education (Volume XXII, No. 1):
“Culture of Shared Knowledge: Developing a Strategy for Low-Cost Textbook Alternatives” by Dr. Judy Baker, Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (page 30)
“Digital Textbooks: A Student Perspective” by Nicole Allen, The Student PIRGs (page 32)
This article will not be available online until mid-October. It is only available in the print version of the Journal for now.
“The OpenCourseware Story” by Stephen Carson, President of the Board of Directors for the OpenCourseware Consortium (pages 30 - 32)
This article will not be available online until mid-October. It is only available in the print version of the Journal for now.
The Student PIRGs and MERLOT have formed a strategic alliance promote use of open textbooks with the new Open Textbooks Project. Visitors to MERLOT can now find open textbooks using the Open Textbook category under Advanced Search > Material Type. See open textbooks listed at MERLOT. MERLOT members are encouraged to provide evaluation and commentary on the listed open textbooks. For details, visit MERLOT Innovations.
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