This document summarizes a presentation about the BC Open Textbook Project. The project aims to connect the expertise, programs and resources of BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative framework. It has three phases: 1) Launch open textbooks in high-enrollment subjects, 2) Adapt existing open textbooks to the BC context, and 3) Create new open textbooks from scratch. The project expects to improve access to education by reducing student costs and improve learning outcomes. It also enables faculty collaboration on open educational resources.
Open Access Week: College of Du Page KeynoteUna Daly
Open Access Week keynote for In Service Day at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Choose Generation Open: Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources with Una Daly, Community College Director at the Open Education Consortium and Kate Hess, Faculty Librarian, at Kirkwood College, Iowa.
Updated slides about BCcampus' Open Education Resources projects, for KPU Open Education Week Event – March 10, 2014, by David Porter, Executive Director.
Presentation by Dr. R.C. Sharma on Virtual Open Schooling at the National Consultative Workshop on Virtual Open Schooling in India organised by NIOS and CEMCA on 16 October 2012.
Why, What and How of OER. Educational trends and how Open Education can help address these. Copyright and Open Licensing. Getting Started with an OER project.
Open Access Week: College of Du Page KeynoteUna Daly
Open Access Week keynote for In Service Day at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Choose Generation Open: Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources with Una Daly, Community College Director at the Open Education Consortium and Kate Hess, Faculty Librarian, at Kirkwood College, Iowa.
Updated slides about BCcampus' Open Education Resources projects, for KPU Open Education Week Event – March 10, 2014, by David Porter, Executive Director.
Presentation by Dr. R.C. Sharma on Virtual Open Schooling at the National Consultative Workshop on Virtual Open Schooling in India organised by NIOS and CEMCA on 16 October 2012.
Why, What and How of OER. Educational trends and how Open Education can help address these. Copyright and Open Licensing. Getting Started with an OER project.
OER and The Economies of Sale - MACS 2014Charles Key
This presentation, given to the 2014 fall meeting of the Michigan Association of College Stores, provides an overview of the argument for Open Educational Resources and how college stores can participate.
Promising aspects of online education in Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCsROER4D
Promising aspects of online educationin Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCs? A presentation by Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams for the World Development Report 2016: Internet for Development Regional Consultation Conference, Nairobi, 26-27 January 2015, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town
Presentation during Open Access Week celebrations at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa
Goal of the presentation: Address broader aspects of openness in higher education
OER and the Economies of Sale - CAMEX 2014Charles Key
Higher education is experiencing a "crisis of cost." Open Educational Resources are positioned to be an important part of the solution. This presentation contains seven reasons that OER are here to stay and challenges campus stores to embrace the opportunity and drive OER adoptions.
A brief overview on open Education, the emergence of Open Courses, lessons learnt from Free / Libre Open Source Software Communities & some recent projects in this field at which we are working on.
For a new better version of this tutorial see my Google Slides with embedded videos.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MftEOT3uvYpCVwUaLMhsesm5Que-Kr7GQRV4pKZ2SNQ/edit?usp=sharing
This is a 2016 tutorial on how to do watershed delineation using ArcMap 10. It is an open education resource. Please let me know if you find it useful or see something that could be improved. Feel free to use it for teaching Geographic Information Science.
OER and The Economies of Sale - MACS 2014Charles Key
This presentation, given to the 2014 fall meeting of the Michigan Association of College Stores, provides an overview of the argument for Open Educational Resources and how college stores can participate.
Promising aspects of online education in Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCsROER4D
Promising aspects of online educationin Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCs? A presentation by Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams for the World Development Report 2016: Internet for Development Regional Consultation Conference, Nairobi, 26-27 January 2015, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town
Presentation during Open Access Week celebrations at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa
Goal of the presentation: Address broader aspects of openness in higher education
OER and the Economies of Sale - CAMEX 2014Charles Key
Higher education is experiencing a "crisis of cost." Open Educational Resources are positioned to be an important part of the solution. This presentation contains seven reasons that OER are here to stay and challenges campus stores to embrace the opportunity and drive OER adoptions.
A brief overview on open Education, the emergence of Open Courses, lessons learnt from Free / Libre Open Source Software Communities & some recent projects in this field at which we are working on.
For a new better version of this tutorial see my Google Slides with embedded videos.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MftEOT3uvYpCVwUaLMhsesm5Que-Kr7GQRV4pKZ2SNQ/edit?usp=sharing
This is a 2016 tutorial on how to do watershed delineation using ArcMap 10. It is an open education resource. Please let me know if you find it useful or see something that could be improved. Feel free to use it for teaching Geographic Information Science.
VMworld 2013: Maximize Database Performance in Your Software-Defined Data CenterVMworld
VMworld 2013
Mark Achtemichuk, VMware
Michael Webster, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
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Music Credits
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Combining ReST and Context for Killer iPhone Appsjasonc411
This slide deck was presented at iPhone Developer Summit East on June 22, 2009. It covers a new archetype that uses ReSTful Web-Services and Cloud Computing to extend the functionality of Context-Aware mobile applications. Enjoy!
Jason
http://jasonc411.com
On twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jasonc411
25 Most Popular & Downloaded Apps For iPhoneAnna Harris
Showcasing The Top 25 Most Popular And Downloaded iPhone Apps By Users Across The World. These Listed Apps Are Among The Coolest iPhone Apps Of All Time.
16 Killer Crisis Management Apps for iPhone & iPadMissionMode
Here are 16 of the best iPhone and iPad apps that will interest crisis management and disaster response professionals. Many will also be of interest to the average user. These are practical apps that you should find useful as you do your job.
The Government of India is aware of the strong and urgent need to make secondary education within easy reach, affordable and of good quality. There are certain measures that can be adopted to bring quality, equity and access for every child. Schools can be upgraded; their capacity to serve students expanded, creating new schools, and increasing GDP allocated to secondary schools are some of them. However, these require heavy investments in terms of infrastructure and finances. Adoption of ICT tools and an increased shift towards open distance and electronic education can improve quality and increase efficiency. Although there are various schemes in place, it is estimated that the demand for secondary education is going to increase sharply due to increased turnover of students from primary level (like the success obtained via Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme). Going virtual is one of the solutions. This concept paper looks into the aspect of increasing demand for access to education in the context of RMSA, meeting the educational needs by Open Schooling system, emerging trends in ICT use in education and proposes a framework for Virtual Open Schooling in India.
http://net.educause.edu/eliweb119 (recording here too - though I'm not sure if Educause requires you be an ELI member to see it - I think it will be open - hope so :)
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Cable Green, PhD, Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons. Cable Green, Director of Global Learning @ Creative Commons, will discuss how, if we are smart, we will use today's technical and legal tools to build and share high quality, affordable educational resources with everyone who wants to learn. The combined forces of digital content, the Internet and the effect of Moore's law push the cost of storing, replicating and distributing educational materials, once created, to near zero. Open licensing allows this content to be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed so others may localize, customize, translate, and (most important) collect and share open data on the effectiveness of the educational resources to continuously improve their quality. Cable will also discuss how open policies, once adopted, make sustainability a non-issue and ensure publicly funded educational resources are open educational resources.
Una Daly and James Glapa-Grossklag from the Community College Consortium for OER at the Open Education Consortium were keynote speakers for the Maryland Online OER Day held at University of Maryland University College in Largo. Over 150 faculty, staff, and administrators registered for the daylong event held on June 2, 2014.
But I've Never Taken an Online Course Before!Clint Lalonde
Virtual presentation to the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria on July 16, 2020. As concerns about COVID continue to impact planning for the fall term, it appears likely that online learning will play a significant role in course delivery. For many instructors, developing and teaching an online course will be a new experience. The same will be true for many incoming students who are now facing the potential that their entire fall term may be delivered in a format that they are unfamiliar with. As their instructor, there are some strategies you can employ that can help alleviate the fears and concerns learners new to online learning may have about taking online courses. In this session, we'll take a look at the student experience taking an online course for the first time. What are some of the common challenges many will face? What kind of impact is COVID having on their learning experience, and what are some practical ways through course design and facilitation that you can help ensure they will be successful learners.
Open Technology - The 3rd Pillar of Open EducationClint Lalonde
Presentation to KPU March 30, 2017 for Open Education Week.
The Open Education movement has gained a great deal of traction in the 10 years since the groundbreaking 2007 Capetown Declaration on Open Education, due largely in part to the increasing acceptance and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), like open textbooks. Recently, a second wave of open educators have begun to emphasize the importance of a new emerging pedagogical model enabled by open education, referred to as open pedagogy.
In addition to OER and open pedagogy, a third pillar of the open education movement revolves around the importance of open technologies. The 2007 Capetown Declaration sates that, "open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues."
In British Columbia, a small ad hoc group of educators known as the BC Open EdTech Collaborative has been quietly experimenting with different open technologies that have the potential to support open education practices, and with different models to be able to support users of open education technologies.
In this session, Clint Lalonde will talk about the connection between open education and open source software, the importance of open technologies to the open education movement, and will demonstrate some of the open education technologies that the BC Open EdTech Collaborative have been exploring.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Delivering Micro-Credentials in Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingAG2 Design
Explore how micro-credentials are transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with this comprehensive slide deck. Discover what micro-credentials are, their importance in TVET, the advantages they offer, and the insights from industry experts. Additionally, learn about the top software applications available for creating and managing micro-credentials. This presentation also includes valuable resources and a discussion on the future of these specialised certifications.
For more detailed information on delivering micro-credentials in TVET, visit this https://tvettrainer.com/delivering-micro-credentials-in-tvet/
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of Labour
Beyond Free
1. BeyondFree
The BC Open Textbook Project
Clint Lalonde
Manager, Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Uvic Open Access Week Oct 25, 2013
Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution.
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2. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
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Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Collaborative Programs & Shared Services
Student Services & Data Exchange
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3. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
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Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Support & promote the development & use of Open Educational Resources
Support instructors who want to use technology in their teaching practice
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License
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4. What are OER?
―OER are teaching, learning, and research resources
that reside in the public domain or have been released
under an intellectual property license that permits their
free use and re-purposing by others.‖
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources
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5. What are OER?
―Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are in the public domain or
introduced with an open license. The nature of these
open materials means that anyone can legally and
freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.‖
UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educationalresources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/
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7. Reusability Paradox
The more context
a learning object
has, the more (and
the more easily) a
learner can learn
from it.
To make learning
objects maximally
reusable, learning
objects should
contain as little
context as possible.
The Reusability Paradox image by David Wiley used under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 3.0) Retrieved from
http://cnx.org/content/m11898/latest/
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8. ―Therefore, pedagogical
effectiveness and potential for reuse
are completely at odds with one
another, unless the end user is
permitted to edit the learning object.‖
Source: The Reusability Paradox, David Wiley, Connexions. http://cnx.org/content/m11898/latest/
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10. Some Rights Reserved
Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
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11. Image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law
http://education-copyright.org/creative-commons/
Used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa license
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12. Beyond Free Benefit #1
Faculty have full legal control to
customize & contextualize
learning resources
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13. Online Program Development Fund (OPDF)
2003-2012
$9 million invested
153 grants awarded
100% participation across system
83% partnerships
47 credentials developed in whole or part via OPDF
355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396
course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks,
manuals, videos)
100% open license for free & open sharing & reuse by all
BC post-secondary
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15. What is an Open Textbook?
A textbook licensed under an open
copyright license, and made available
online to be freely used by students,
teachers and members of the public.
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17. 40 free and open textbooks
available for the highest
enrolled 1st & 2nd year postsecondary subjects in BC
First province in Canada
Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/
Used under Creative Commons attribution share-alike license
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18. Why are we doing this project?
To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs
To improve student learning by removing barriers to resources
To give faculty more control over their instructional resources
Images from Oxfam.org CC-BY and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/World_Open_Educational_Resources_Congress_2012
/How_Open_Access_and_Open_Science_can_mutually_fertilize_with_Open_Educational_Resources CC-BY
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19. Students spend $1200/yr on textbooks
4x rate of inflation over past 20 years
70% students have not purchased textbook for a
course because of price
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21. There is a direct relationship between textbook
costs and student success
60%+ do not purchase textbooks at
some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to
textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a
course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without textbooks
due to cost
14% have dropped a course due
to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a course
due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida
Virtual Campus
Slide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative
Commons via http://www.projectkaleidoscope.org/
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22. ―My textbook is…
…back-ordered
…in the mail
…out of stock
…the wrong edition
…on hold until my student loan arrives‖
How often do students start the term
without the resources they need?
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23. What students think of textbooks
―The price of textbooks has influenced my decision to take classes. When the
same class is offered by three different instructors, I check which book is the
cheapest, and even though the professor might not be good, I’m forced to take that
class because the textbook is the cheapest.‖
―I was in lab one day and the guy sitting next to me had the PDF version of the
book opened on his computer. And I was like, Oh, can I have a copy? And he sent
it over to me.‖
―I have a friend who actually didn’t spend any money last year for books because
he went to the library at the beginning of the quarter, borrowed books, scanned
everything, and had the PDF file.‖
―My most expensive class was clinical psych, because she writes the textbook
herself, and it has a new edition every semester or something ridiculous. So it was
like almost $200. And the thing is that you can’t use the previous edition, because
she changes it herself because she knows the textbooks sell well. It’s like so
manipulative.‖
Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2013
http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Get-Savvier-About/136827
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27. Virginia State University School of Business
Open Textbooks in 9 courses (Flat World Knowledge FWK)
“Students in courses that used FWK textbooks tended to have
higher grades and lower failing and withdrawal rates than those
in courses that did not use FWK texts.”
Andrew Feldstein, Mirta Martin, Amy Hudson, John Hilton III, & David Wiley. Open Textbooks
and Increased Student Access and Outcomes. Retrieved April 28, 2013, from
http://www.eurodl.org/?p=current&article=533
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28. Utah Open Textbook Project
1 year pilot 2000 students
10 high school science
teachers adapt CK12
textbooks
Cost US $4.99/book
printed & delivered (US
$80)
5.9% gain in standardized test scores
Source: http://bccampus.ca/2012/10/29/questions-and-answers-on-open-textbooks-part-1a/ http://utahopentextbooks.org/
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29. Houston Community College
Psychology Department modifies an existing open
textbook to create custom textbook
“During the fall semester 2011, 690 students used this book.
Compared with students using a traditional text in the spring of
2011, students who used the free online textbook scored higher
on departmental final examinations, had higher grade point
averages in the class and had higher retention rates.
Source: One college’s use of an open psychology textbook, John Hilton III, Carol Laman,
Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning Volume 27, Issue 3, 2012
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31. launched in 2008 on a shoestring budget, now nets over
2 million visitors a month, making it the most visited
domain among the university's websites.
Delmar Larsen now offers extra credit to students who submit entries, occasionally
holding pizza parties to bring in volunteers to write or review pages. He assigns a
rating system to new articles based on the author's expertise and experience, with
articles moving up as they are edited and vetted.
ChemWiki recently received its first major funding — a grant
of $250,000 from the National Science Foundation
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/
Source: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10748
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35. The HoTT book
―We are a group of two dozen mathematicians who wrote a
600 page book in less than half a year. This is quite amazing,
since mathematicians do not normally work together in large
groups. ―
―..the spirit of collaboration that pervaded our group at the
Institute for Advanced Study was truly amazing.
We did not fragment. We talked, shared ideas, explained things
to each other, and completely forgot who did what.
If we can get mathematicians to share half-baked ideas, not to
worry who contributed what to a paper, or even who the authors
are, then we will reach a new and unimagined level of
productivity. Progress is made by those who dear (sic) the
break rules.‖
Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana
Source: The HoTT book, Mathematics and Computation http://math.andrej.com/2013/06/20/the-hott-book/
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36. ―Rather than working as employees on by-the-piece rates
for global companies like Pearson, faculty members can
assume the role of publishers.
Using free content-management systems like Joomla,
Drupal, or WordPress in conjunction with inexpensive web
hosting packages, we can build communities around our
educational materials.‖
―We need to realize our power as authors and publishers.
Working collaboratively, we can create dynamic teaching
and learning environments.‖
Joe Moxley, University of South Florida, http://writingcommons.org/
Source: Open Textbook Publishing, Joe Moxley, World.edu http://world.edu/open-textbook-publishing/
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37. Beyond Free Benefits
1. Faculty have full legal control to customize
& contextualize learning resources
2. Improved learning: Day 1 access &
customized resources
3. Opportunities for Authentic Learning
4. Collegial collaboration
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44. 1
Phase One: Launch (March -August 2013)
Example of BC reviews of
Collaborative Stats book
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45. 1
Phase One: Launch (March -August 2013)
Early Adopter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
Students: 60
Previous Textbook: $187
OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $11,200
College Physics textbook cover image by OpenStax College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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46. 1
Phase One: Launch (March -August 2013)
Early Adopter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
Students: 60
Previous Textbook: $187
OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $11,200
1 class 1 institution 1 term
College Physics textbook cover image by OpenStax College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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47. 2
Phase Two: Adapt (Sept 2013-Sept 2014 underway)
Adaptations – 2 types: Existing & New
More textbooks (13 new)
More reviews
More outreach: Libraries & Bookstores
Technology (PoD, PressBooks, Connexions)
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48. 2
Phase Two: Adapt (Sept 2013-Sept 2014 underway)
Type 1: New
Suggest a textbook & modifications for a subject area
we have not found existing textbooks.
Anthropology
Applied Science
Commerce
Criminology
Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Geography
History
Kinetics/Kinesiology
Political Science
Visual Arts, Media & Design
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49. 2
Phase Two: Adapt (Sept 2013-Sept 2014 underway)
Type 2: Existing
Introduction to Psychology
The faculty who reviewed this text felt that it needed to be adapted to reflect a Canadian context, that it
required the addition of a chapter on stress, health, and coping, and an overview of all the major
psychological perspectives in the first chapter of the text. The BC Open Textbook project will fund a
subject matter expert $7500 to complete this work. Technical support and editing services will be
provided.
Introduction to Sociology
This book received a good overall rating, however the faculty who reviewed it felt that it required
adaptation to reflect a Canadian context and the insertion of content about Feminist Theory. The BC
Open Textbook project will fund a subject matter expert $7500 to complete this work. Technical support
and editing services will be provided.
Introduction to Chemistry
Reviewers of this text found it was missing content about Kinetic-Molecular Theory and
Thermodynamics. In addition it is lacking a glossary. The BC Open Textbook project will fund a subject
matter expert $5000 to add the additional content and create a glossary.
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50. 3
Phase Three: Create (January 2014-Sept 2014)
Produce as few textbooks as possible from scratch
Create 1 exemplar e-textbook
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