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Welcome to the College Open Textbooks Press Room!

The Community College Open Textbooks Collaborative (College Open Text Book) Is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This collection of sixteen educational non profit and for profit organizations,affiliated with more then 200 colleges,is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more then 2000 community and other two-year colleges. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks hat support for authors operating their resources and other services.

College open textbooks has already peer-reviewed several new open textbooks for use in Community college courses and identified more then 250 others for consideration .Open textbooks are freely available for use without restriction and can be downloaded or printed form websites and repositories. the core team for college open textbooks includes Dr.Judy Baker, Jacky Hood, Una Daly , Bill Buxton, and Mitchell Levy.

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News Announcements and Press Releases

10/20/2010 - WCET Announces Awards for Outstanding Use of Technology in Higher Education Site.

9/15/2010 - DynamicBooks and College Open Textbooks Partner to Make Open Textbooks  Easy to Edit and Customize.

08/10/2010 - Initiative Focuses on Expanding for Low Cost Online Textbooks

In the News

Media coverage of WOW award

MidPen

http://midpen-media-center.blogspot.com/2010/12/foothill-deanza-community-college.html

MV Voice

Nick Veronin's interview of Una appeared in the MV Voice Dec 3 on page 7.

It was reprinted in Palto online

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19283&e=y

SJ Mercury News

http://www.mercurynews.com/cupertino/ci_16764257

Sacramento Bee

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/textbooks-cost120710/textbooks-cost120710/

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