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Winning Ideas from the Big Ideas Fest
Both Jacky Hood and I along with 150 other leading educators and business executives focused on education convened in Half Moon Bay on December 4-7 for the Big Ideas Fest...
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Mentor Cloud and Open Doors Group / College Open Textbooks Partner to...
Mentor Cloud and Open Doors Group / College Open Textbooks Partner to Facilitate Sharing Best Practices Among the Open Education Community New Community to Share Best Practices and Facilitate...
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Emerging Battles Over Textbooks: Options from Apple to Open Initiatives
Andy Oram, editor at O'Reilly Media by Andy Oram The worlds of both education and publishing will be tugged from opposing directions, perhaps to the breaking point, by two recent trends. One is...
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Business Communications Adopter Community Update
Our eight adopter communities have been making great progress with their open textbook or OER projects. Focused on using these to improve teaching and learning for their students, adopter communities...
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Textbook and Academic Writers Invited to 2012 Conference in New Orleans, June...
Network with the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA) community, build your knowledge, and expand your publishing opportunities at the 25th Anniversary TAA Conference, “Academic & Textbook...
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Exemplary open textbooks and methodology: ChemWiki and its Progeny
ChemWiki not only shines as an exemplary series of open-licensed chemistry textbooks, it has spawned BioWiki GeoWiki MathWiki PhysWiki SolarWiki and StatWiki Professor Delmar Larsen of the University...
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What’s New in OER at Scottsdale Community College?
Faculty in the Mathematics Department at Scottsdale Community College have been working hard this year to create, revise, and organize materials for our OER project in several of our courses. This is...
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Advanced Water Mathematics Online Textbook – an update from an adopter...
Regina Blasberg, College of Canyons Mike Alvord, Director of Operations for Newhall County Water District, and I are working on writing an Advanced Water Mathematics online textbook. Mike has...
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American Government Textbook: An Update from the Field
Dr. Tim Lenz and I have been working on editing the textbook and identifying students to work on the text over the summer. Using information from surveys and informal feedback from students, along with...
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The PhysWiki Dynamic Textbook Project
The PhysWiki Dynamic Textbook Project The PhysWiki is one of seven integral components of the STEMWiki Dynamic Textbook Project (DTP), a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next...
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