A Seattle representative to the Washington state assembly sees open access to education as a key to government reform. Reuven Carlyle elaborates on the open educational resources movement and shows how college and high school success can make great strides at a fraction of the cost of physical campuses. See http://reuvencarlyle36.com/2010/08/12/want-government-reform-open-access-to-higher-education/
Archive for August, 2010
Free Online Business Courses
August 7, 2010Free online business courses are available from the U.S. Small Business Administration Training Network.
Course titles include:
- FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
- GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING
- BUSINESS PLANNING
- SURVIVING A SLOW ECONOMY
- STARTING A SMALL BUSINESS
- ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
- BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Also, see these free publications:
Free Digital Study Versions of the Classics
August 7, 2010The Anne Arundel Community College Bookstore provides free e-textbooks of the classics as Digital Study Versions. These are enhanced digital versions which can be downloaded an unlimited number of times and include study tools such as highlighting, annotations and search capabilities. In order to read these eBooks, you will need to have the free Adobe Digitial Editions reader software on your computer. Click here to install.
Works included were written by the following authors:
OER Resources
August 6, 2010- Apply CC Licenses
- Bookserver
- Case for Free Use
- CC Shared Culture
- ccLearn FAQ
- Citizendium
- CK12 Flexbooks
- Collaborative Books Project
- Commonwealth of Learning
- Composing OER
- Curriki
- DebateGraph
- Digital Marketplace
- DiscoverEd
- Distruptive Innovation
- DIY Open Content
- Economics of Open Content
- Educator Mini-handbook
- ETL OER
- Faculty Worksheet
- FHSST How-To
- Findability
- Flat World Knowledge
- FREE
- Free Digital Textbooks Initiative
- FriendFeed Open Textbooks
- Global Text Project
- Goodbye, Textbooks
- High Tech Center
- Information R/evolution
- Instructional Architect OCW
- Internet Archive OER
- Intro to OER Tutorial
- K12 Open Ed
- KY Learning Depot
- MERLOT
- morgueFile
- OER Blogs
- OER Course SCoPE
- OER for Cancer
- OER in Health
- OER Practices
- OER Recommender
- OER Research
- OER Self-Paced Tutorial
- OER The Way Forward
- OER Workshop
- OER Workshop Toolkit
- OnCoReBlue Print Webinars
- Open Course Library
- Open Learning Initiative
- Open Library
- Open Revolution
- Open Textbook Adoption
- Open Textbook Webinar
- Open Training Platform
- OpenEd
- Opening Up Education
- Open|Web|Content|Edu Course
- Orange Grove Texts Plus
- PediaPress
- Potto Project
- Publishing Open Content
- QeDocs
- Quick Guide
- SCoPE OER Seminar
- SOFIA
- SOL*R Repository
- SPARC
- Teacher’s Domain
- Textbook Revolution
- The Machine is Us/ing Us
- The Textbook Source
- UNESCO OER Toolkit
- Universal Access to Knowledge
- Use CC License
- Why OER?
- Why Open Textbooks?
- Why Remix OERs?
- Wikibooks
- WikiEducator
US Labor Dept Seeks OER Grant Reviewers
August 6, 2010The U.S. Department of Labor has an urgent need to add to its pool of expert reviewers for a new grant competition related to open educational resources and online learning. If you are interested, please submit your credentials via this webpage: http://www.doleta.gov/doc/grant_panelist.cfm.
100,000+ Visits to OER Consortium
August 5, 2010The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources website passed the 100,000 visits mark this week.
For those of you interested in open education and reform, be sure to take a look at the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review.
The Open Future: Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation
The Open Student: Questioning the Future of the Open Student
The Open Course: Through the Open Door: Open Courses as Research, Learning, and Engagement
The Open Faculty: To Share or Not to Share: Is That the Question?
The Open Ed Tech: Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle
The Open World: Access to Knowledge as a Foundation for an Open World
