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Open Textbooks

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Contents


Reviews


Open Textbook Review criteria

The final textbook review will include ratings (1 – 5, low to high) using the following criteria for each chapter reviewed:

  • Clarity and comprehensibility - content, including the instructions and exercises
  • Accuracy
  • Readability - in terms of logic, sequencing, and flow
  • Consistency of course materials - consistency in the content language and use of key terms as is necessary to facilitate understanding by novice users
  • Appropriateness of content - appropriateness of the material for community college level courses
  • Interface - technological issues such as broken links, improperly displayed graphics, and ease of navigation
  • Content usefulness - the ways in which the content could be useful for teachers, students, and those with a general interest in the subject area
  • Modularity - the ability to adapt, rearrange, add, delete and modify the content by sections
  • Content errors - the presence or absence of factual errors, grammatical errors, and typographical errors in the content
  • Reading level - appropriate for community college level students
  • Cultural relevance - use of examples that are inclusive of diverse races and ethnicities

In addition, the review will include narrative explanations or justifications, with examples, for each of the ratings.


Community College Open Textbook (CCOT) Project

http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/ItTakesaConsortiumtoSuppo/47932?time=1234005347

challenges to the production and adoption of open textbooks:

  • (1) faculty members’ and students’ expectations of high production quality and ancillaries for open textbooks;
  • (2) faculty members’ expectations of free printed desk copies of open textbooks;
  • (3) colleges’ reluctance to mandate the use or adoption of specific open textbooks to the exclusion of other books;
  • (4) the potential for loss of revenue stream by campus bookstores;
  • (5) methods for articulating and transferring credit assurances for courses using open textbooks;
  • (6) the need to meet accessibility standards;
  • (7) methods for documenting and maintaining control over various versions;
  • (8) copyright issues; (9) the process of converting existing open content to digital and accessible formats; and
  • (9) the fact that student financial aid for textbooks is not set up for online commerce.

Preliminary report recommendations encourage

  • (1) using Connexions as the common repository for open textbook content, in an effort to provide greater national and even international access;
  • (2) using Connexions as the tool for sharing, reusing, customizing, and disseminating open textbook content;
  • (3) further examining FWK as a sustainable business model for open textbook production;
  • (4) considering corporate funding, in return for branding, to sponsor the development of content for specific disciplines;
  • (5) approaching publishers to donate content that is going out of print; and
  • (6) identifying the process for storyboarding the development of open textbooks.



Open Textbook Resources

Tutorials - create, collaborate, adopt, remix, redistribute

  • Connexions Rice University - Judy Baker
  • WikiEducator - OER

Distribution alternatives - reformat, print on demand


Other initiatives

WikiEducator

  • Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
  • Wikitexts - Vet Nursing text


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Learn more...

Here are links to materials that were referenced in the Open Textbook Consortium meeting today. I thought these might be of interest to some in this group.

  • Building Open Educational Resources from the Ground Up: South Africa’s Free High School Science Texts at

http://wiki.oercommons.org/mediawiki/index.php/Building_Open_Educatio...

Recent Presentations

  • “Break Free Use Open Content” at Online Teaching Conference

(@ONE) presentation on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 2:15 pm at Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA. http://www.cccconfer.org/CCCC/GoToArchivesAnonymousely.aspx?MeetingID... Break free from expensive, bland, and static traditional textbooks. Reclaim your curriculum with free and open learning content that you can customize for the unique needs of your students and teaching style. Learn about reliable sources of open content as well as the tools and strategies to use them effectively. Join a community of educators who have already embraced the freedom and challenges of open educational resources. Leave this session with learning content that you have discovered and can use.

  • Open and Free Content for Educators

http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/events/open-and-free-content-for Etudes Summit Friday, April 24, 2009 at 9:15 am Los Angeles slideshow available on request


Future Presentations

  • Save $$ with Free and Open Textbooks

with Judy Baker Tuesday, July 28, 12 noon – 1:00 p.m. (PDT) http://www.cccone.org/seminars/teaching/saving-money-with-free-and-op...

  • If Content is King, Then Let Openness be Queen

http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/events/if-content-is-king-then-let 2009 MERLOT Conference August 15, 2009 at 10:00 am San Jose, CA at Doubletree Hotel

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