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Community College Open Textbook Project
A site for stakeholders and participants of the Community College Open Textbook Project
http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com
Train the Trainer for Open Textbook Adoptions
Train the Trainer for Open Textbook Adoptions' on Community College Open Textbook Project!
Practical skill-building for encouraging adoptions of open educational resources including textbooks. The workshop focuses on finding, adapting, and using open resources (both online and printed); working with administrators, campus stores, and students; understanding open licenses; comparing and using repositories and more. The only cost is a commitment to train others.
Please let community college professionals know about this workshop, especially those who are attending the League for Innovation CIT conference and/or the SHN Alternative Courseware event.
October 15, 2009 from 1pm to 5pm Detroit Airport Westin Hotel
http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2233548%3AEvent%3A6666&xgi=5RD2wblnAIfU9a
Train the Trainer for Open Textbook Adoptions
- Time: October 15, 2009 from 1pm to 5pm
- Location: Detroit Airport Westin Hotel
- Organized By: Jacky Hood
Open textbook adoption
- open textbooks - what they are, format, considerations, benefits, issues
- availability - listings, repositories, copyright, reviews, recommendations
- stakeholders - academic department administration/faculty, articulation partners, bookstore, library, curriculum committee
- adoption guidelines - process - requirements, evaluation, selection, preparation, distribution, revision
- Open Textbook Adoption by: Judy Baker - Five steps to adopting an Open Textbook for a course.
What are Open Textbooks?
Open textbooks "are textbooks that are freely available with nonrestrictive licenses. Covering a wide range of disciplines, open textbooks are available to download and print in various file formats from several web sites and OER repositories. Open textbooks can range from public domain books to existing textbooks to textbooks created specifically for OER. Open textbooks help solve the problems of the high cost of textbooks, book shortages, and access to textbooks as well as providing the capacity to better meet local teaching and learning needs" according to a Module created by Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).
Five steps to adopting an open textbook for your course
Give your students an alternative to expensive textbooks by following these five steps.
- List keywords based on course objectives or student learning outcomes.
- Search for open content using the keywords.
- Select or create appropriate open content.
- Organize open content into an open textbook.
- Get necessary approvals and disseminate the open textbook to students.
