Resources
Find OER and Open Textbooks
- Open Textbooks (listed by subject)
- Repositories and Blogs
- Books and Primary Sources
- Open Courseware
- Sources of Images and Sound
- How Educators Locate Digital Content
- Books Available Under Creative Commons License
Develop and Share OER and Open Textbooks
- Funding Proposals for Development of Open Content
- Development of Open Textbooks and Open Educational Resources
- Publish Learning Materials
- Have Students Write the Textbook (use of wiki to develop open textbooks)
- Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production in a Digital Age by John Seely Brown (October 2008 video interview)
- Student-engineered Open Textbook: Chemical Process Dynamics and Controls
- Tutorial on Collaborative Editing at Wikieducator
- Wikieducator Tutorial
- Creation of Learning Content
- How to Negotiate a Creative Commons License with a Publisher
- Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing
- Collaborative Creation of Educational Materials: Lessons from the Field
- Common Wisdom Peer Production of Educational Materials
- Publising Open Content – videos in three parts
- Open Textbooks: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
- Ebook Tools
- Document Hosting and Sharing Tools
- Creating Learning Materials for Open and Distance Learning: A Handbook for Authors and Instructional Designers
Learn More about OER and Open Textbooks
- A Short Guide to Licensing Your OERs on the Web - ccLearn
- What Status for OER?
- OER Handbook for Educators
- Articles and Reports about Open Educational Resources
- The Tower and the Cloud
- Publishing Open Content Part 1
- Publishing Open Content Part 2
- Publishing Open Content Part 3
- Open Educational Resources
- Good intentions: improving the evidence base in support of sharing learning materials
- The Case of the Open Textbook
- Management Professor Uses ‘Crowdsourcing’ to Write Textbook
- Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education
- Journal of Open and Distance Learning Special Issue: OER
- Open Learning: What Do Open Textbooks Tell Us About the Revolution in Education?
- Advancing Sustainability of Open Educational Resources
- eLearning Papers issue on Open Educational Resources
- Critiques of OER
- The Transformative Potential of Open Educational Resources (OER)
- A Brief Overview of U.S. Public Policy on OER from California’s Community Colleges to the Obama Administration
- Are Textbooks Becoming Extinct?
- HIGHER EDUCATION: The Success and Challenges in Open Education Resources
- How Do Open Education Resources Acquire Their Value for Teaching and Learning?
- Innovative Projects in the Publishing of OER
- Open Content – Open Educational Resources
Publishers’ Textbooks and College Bookstores
- College Textbooks – Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Recent Price Increases (2005 GAO Report)
- The Complex World of the Textbook
- Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam?
- Authors embrace open educational movement
Legislation and Policies
Open Content Repositories
- California Digital Marketplace
- CK12 Flexbooks
- Curriki
- Global Text Project
- Internet Archive OER
- Orange Grove
- Wikibooks
- Connexions
- WikiEducator
- AMSER
Learning without Traditional Textbooks or Courses
- Imagine There’s No Courses
- A World Without Courses
- Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: An ethnographic investigation
- 100 Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks
- Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
- Wiki Becomes Textbook in Boston College Classroom
- School Says Goodbye to Books
- No Books, No Problem: Teaching Without a Text
- How to Toss the Text
- The Muddle Machine: Confessions of a Textbook Editor
- The Future of Online Textbooks and Modules
- A Modest Curriculum Proposal: Project Learning vs. the Textbook
- Signs of a Significant Disruption in the Traditional Textbook Model
- 80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
- Connectivism: A learning theory for a digital age
- Bye Bye Textbooks, Hello Improvement
- Student-generated Learning Content - QuizMD
- UMBC-based website rides online learning trend (US Democrazy.net)
- U. of Iowa Law Class Uses Wiki as Its Textbook
- Openness in Education (video presentation)
- iSchool Initiative (video presentation)
- Integrating Online Multimedia into College Course and Classroom: With Application to the Social Sciences
- The World is Open for a Reason Make that 30 Reasons!
- The World is Open
- A User’s Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web
- Beyond Textbooks (video)
- First Day of School? Don’t Pass Out Books
- Connectivism
- Teaching without textbooks
- A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education
- Open Access Learning Environments
Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
- New Structures and Spaces of Learning
- The social impact of personal learning environments
- Create PLE
- Create a PLE using Pageflakes
- History of PLEs
- Exploring PLEs
- Instructions for Creating a Del.icio.us Portfolio
- Course Community Building with NING
- White Space in Learning
- Creating and Managing Your Own LinkedIn Group
