Register now for an Afternoon Learning Center Course titled Introduction to the Open Educational Resources Movement and Open Textbooks at the 2008 Conference on Information Technology, League for Innovations in Community Colleges on October 19-22 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Archive for the ‘May 2008’ Category
Latest postings about CCCOER
May 29, 2008Sloan-C Symposium of Emerging Technologies Recap
See paragraph 4 of this blog posting on Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Open Textbook Progress - Metamedia blog
CITE – a new blog on Course materials, Innovation, and Technology in Education
Serendipty35 blog on April 30, 2008
CMC3 Resolution Supports CCCOER
May 13, 2008Last Saturday May 10, 2008 the California Mathematics Council Community Colleges (CMC3) unanimously passed the following resolution:
Resolution on Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
Whereas the price of higher education is a major barrier to the success of community college students;
and whereas the price of textbooks is a large portion of the cost of an education, often higher than student fees;
and whereas the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is an effort that will work to provide textbooks available to California Community College Students and others for free;
and whereas the CCCOER was founded by Foothill De Anza community college district;
Be it resolved that the California Mathematics Council, Community Colleges (CMC3) support the organizations and goals of the CCCOER and the CCOT.
CCCOER Presentation at Sloan-C
May 11, 2008Dr. Judy Baker presented “Open Content for Open Minds: Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources” at the Sloan-C 2008 International Symposium on Thursday, May 9th in Carefree, Arizona. The presentation slideshow is available for viewing at Slideshare.
Open Textbook Project News
May 11, 2008The Community College Open Textbook Project is featured in the news:
- Online Texts for Community Colleges in the April 29th issue of Inside Higher Ed
- Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way in the April 29th issue of Wired Campus
Open Textbooks in the News
May 6, 2008That book costs how much? The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/opinion/25fri4.html
Competition in the Free Textbooks Market. Slashdot.
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/04/26/1823250.shtml
Faculty members fight the high cost of textbooks. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08105/873112-298.stm
Steering Clear of the Bookstore. NPR - Marketplace.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/25/steering_clear_of_the_bookstore/
Professors Gone Paperless. Inside Higher Ed.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/16/textbooks
Community College Open-Textbooks Project gets underway. The Chronicle.
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2947/community-college-open-textbook-project-gets-underway
Online Texts for Community College Students. Inside Higher Ed.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/29/textbooks
List provided by Nicole Allen of Make Textbooks Affordable.
