22. To here…. Mass = MERLOT Community Mass = Educational Practices
23. Creating Collaborative Connections Susan (Susie) Henderson Director, Online Strategies and Programs, EDUCAUSE Former Director, The Orange Grove, Florida’s Digital Repository Principal Investigator, FIPSE Open Access Textbook Grant www.openaccesstextbooks.org [email_address]
31. Open textbooks are : … freely available through an open license (often Creative Commons creativecommons.org ) that permits users to : read, download, copy, distribute, self-print, search or link to the full texts without financial, legal or technical barriers. Copyright Permissions are selected and set by the author or whomever is paying the textbook development costs
39. Online Homework Service @ Fair Cost: WebAssign Solution to Identified Need : 89% of student survey respondents indicate that practice problems improve their grades
66. Questions & Discussion Contact Info: Susan Henderson [email_address] Phil Moss [email_address] Enid Wohlstein [email_address]
Editor's Notes
Open “Digital Library” of OER and Open Educational Services that enable faculty, students, staff, administrators, and everyone else to use and participate in the Community’s library Worldwide community of members who collaboratively contribute to MERLOT’s library and services Higher education leadership community which plans, manages, & finances MERLOT’s services
t eaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use textbooks that are freely available with nonrestrictive licenses. 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 control 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 j ournals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. "open access“ the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles “ The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality . software code that is published & freely available for people to use, develop, share,.educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
t eaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use textbooks that are freely available with nonrestrictive licenses. 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 control 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 j ournals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. "open access“ the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles “ The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality . software code that is published & freely available for people to use, develop, share,.educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
Budapest Open Access Initiative. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtm
The premise is that by working together, faculty from our institutions in specific topical areas can provide higher-quality learning experiences in more cost-effective ways. Moreover, this academic collaboration can be accomplished without diminishing academic freedom or losing the individualistic creative ingenuity that is the hallmark of outstanding colleges and universities.” “ The product of this work would be a toolkit of teaching processes/materials for voluntary use in specific topical areas that can be used by faculty across Oklahoma colleges and universities.”
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