[Open-education] Free Webinar > Open Textbook Publishing and Adoptions > February 5 2014 > 2:00 pm (ET)

Mon Jan 27 18:39:52 UTC 2014

Speaking of open textbooks, I am recruiting educators and librarians who
have had experience in implementing open textbooks for a 60 minute
phenomenological study. I am a Masters student at Royal Roads University
writing my thesis on open textbooks. You can fine more information about
the project here:
http://bccampus.ca/2013/12/12/calling-open-textbook-advocates-danielle-paradis-wants-to-speak-with-you/

Please email me if interested!

Regards,
Danielle

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:36 AM, McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] <
gerrymck at iastate.edu> wrote:

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> Recent research conducted by the OER Research Hub indicates that nearly
> 60% of community college faculty choose OER and open textbooks based on the
> reputation of the institution  or recommendations from trusted colleagues.
> Join us on Wed, February 5, at 11:00 am (PT), 2:00 pm (ET) to hear about
> two high-quality open textbook publishing initiatives, one through the
> State University of New York (SUNY) and the other through OpenStax College
> at Rice University.  Our featured speakers will share their experiences
> with publishing open textbooks for use by both faculty and students and
> share their open textbook adoption strategies.
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> Cyril Oberlander, Director of Library Services at SUNY Geneseo heads up
> the SUNY Open Textbook initiative which publishes high-quality,
> cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and
> peer-reviewers, and libraries as a publishing service and infrastructure.
> They have released three open textbooks this last fall in their planned
> series of fifteen open textbooks in various disciplines.
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> David Harris, Editor-in-chief OpenStax College at Rice University’s
> Connexions project. OpenStax College is a nonprofit organization committed
> to improving student access to quality learning materials. Their free
> textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are
> readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of college
> courses. Their first six books released over the last two years are focused
> on general education courses and are gaining adoptions.
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> No pre-registration is necessary.
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> Click on [Webinar] link on the day of the webinar to login and listen.
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> http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/2014/01/free-webinar-open-textbook-publishing.html
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> Regards,
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> Gerry McKiernan
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> Iowa State University
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> "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours."
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> http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html
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