College Open Textbooks BLOG
Driving Awareness and Adoption
MERLOT Panel: Latest Trends in Open Textbook Research
At Merlot’s recent conference, Mitchell Levy – marketing chair, COT – led a panel of industry who’s who’s in Open Textbooks and the OER initiatives. Talking to a packed room, Dr. Judy Baker offered a view on what the true cost of open textbook adoption is as well as the impact they have on enhancing teacher and learning. Clare Mortensen, ISKME shared with the challenges and barriers to wide-spread open textbook adoption that they found through their reserach. She also offered suggestions for how to address them. Joel Thierstein, Connexions offered insights into accessibility and the role it plays in open textbooks and why they need to be addressed by all involved – author, faculty, university and more.
A copy of their presentations is available via download.
A Framework for Open, Flexible and Distributed E-Learning
There is an interesting article in ELearn Magazine which talks about the bigger picture of E-Learning. It is authored by Badrul H. Khan, Associate Professor, George Washington University. The concept of Open Textbooks is one component of this overall picture.
You can read the details at the ELearn Magazine website.
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