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March 26 CCCOER Webinar: OER Authoring Tools

March 13, 2013
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Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) on Tuesday, March 26, 10:00 am (Pacific time) to hear about authoring tools available for developing open educational resources including web pages, ePub, and PDF formats.  This webinar will feature three different authoring tools that are being used to develop OER that can be made freely available.

Connexions Authoring Tool – Daniel Williamson, project manager of the OpenStax project at Connexions, will demonstrate the new Connexions repository authoring tool which provides a seamless development to distribution workflow for OER creation.

Pressbooks Authoring – Adrienne Watt, a Computer and Business instructor at both Douglas College and Northwest Community College in British Columbia will discuss and demonstrate the BCcampus Pressbooks platform that she and other instructors in British Columbia have used to develop open textbooks.

SoftChalk – Sue Evans, CEO and founder of SoftChalk, will demonstrate their award-winning eLearning content authoring tool and give us a tour of Softchalk cloud, their online community and learning object repository for sharing resources.

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OCW Consortium Global Conference 2012 Articles & Blog Posts

April 26, 2012

Several members of the CCCOER team attended the OCW Consortium Conference last week in Cambridge which represented

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nearly 100 countries from six continents who are working together to make higher education and certifications available universally.  Please find some excellent media articles and blog posts that highlight this amazing experience:

 Building Schools out of Clicks not Bricks (NYTimes)

Open for Business? Why Universities Must Collaborate on Open Courseware (The Guardian, UK)

Open Education Part Of Broader Open Scholar Terrain, Laura Czerniewicz, Associate Professor, University of Capetown, South Africa

Cam12 Innovation and Impact from Joe Wilson, New Ventures at Scottish Qualifications Authority

Cam12 Keynotes, Backchannels, and Undercurrents fromLorna M. Campbell JISC CETIS Assistant Director

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Update on Open Education Week and Innovations 2012

March 6, 2012

The first Open Education Week continues its second day and there are great webinars open all this week.  Remember that the schedule is in GMT so don’t forget to do the math to get your timezone, help on how to do it is on the page.

ALSO, we (CCCOER) will be having a webinar this Friday at 2:00 pm Pacific on the Importance of OpenCommunity College Consortium for Open Educational Resources for Community Colleges and will be presenting the many wonderful OER projects at community colleges. Please let me know if you would like to participate or can send some slides regarding your project.  Apologies for the late afternoon timing.

Yesterday, the Open Education media conference call with Martha Kanter, Undersecretary of Education; Cable Green, Creative Commons; and Anka Mulder, President of the OCW Consortium board, Richard Baraniuk, Rice University, and a Community College student from Los Angeles Community College district was recorded and can be found here.  The Open Society Institute OER video competition was announced on this call as well.

Quick update on Innovations 2012 and Open Education Week.   We had a great reception with Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons on Sunday afternoon at the Innovations 2012 conference.   Two college presidents and Chancellor Constance Carroll from San Diego Community College District attended. Cathy was the keynote speaker that evening and presented the amazing journey of open education and creative commons over the last ten years.  It has made the conversations at this conference with faculty and administrators about OER and open licenses much easier to have.

James Glapa-Grossklag’s and my round table discussion with faculty and administrators yesterday was well attended and although participants ranged from complete newbies to an instructional designer on the Open Course Library, it was a wonderful discussion from the economics of open policy, bookstore roles, why sharing statewide teacher education OER makes senses, role of librarians, NASA’s amazing educational resources, etc.  Also these folks hailed from New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, Missouri, Wisconsin, etc which are all states that have not been represented at CCCOER before.

Finally, you can include your blog on OER at the Open Education Week site as well so you can share the great news about your projects with others interested in open education. Create a profile on the openeducationweek.org site and enter your blog address. Please use #openeducationwk for any tweets or tags.

 

 

 

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Community Colleges and Open Education Week

March 1, 2012

Open Education Week Reception with Cathy Casserly, CEO Creative CommonsOpen Education Week is starting Monday, March 5 and I wanted to let you know about some of the webinars planned for Community College faculty, administrators, staff, and students. There are many other events planned besides the ones below and I encourage you to check them out so we can all benefit from learning about different approaches to open education. Full webinar listing here.

Tuesday is chock full of good webinars. Community college picks include:
• Geoff Cain and Wendy Riggs, Biology OERs at College of the Redwoods
• Candace Thille from Open Learning Initiative, An Open License is Not Enough-Data and Quality in OER.
• Jean Runyon, Anne Arundel, Adopting Bridge To Success OERs for your Educational Programs.
• Alana Harrington, Jennifer Shoop, Saylor Foundation; Mitchell Levy, OpenDoors; Introducing Saylor OERs to Community Colleges.

Wednesday picks:
• Todd Rose, CAST, Neuroscience, Learning and the Future of Education
• Nicole Allen, Student PIRGs, Open Education and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis
• Richard Braniak, Daniel Williamson, Ed Woodward, OpenStaxCollege, High Quality Open Textbooks and Connexions.
• Cable Green, Creative Commons, The Obviousness of Open Policy

Thursday picks:
• Megan Simmons, OER in Action: New tools and use examples from ISKME’s OER Professional Development Program.
• Jutta Treviranus, OCAD University, Panel, Outside In – Achieving Our Goals by Designing for Diversity.
• Maike Schansker, Chahira Nouira, United Nations University, Europe, Certification of Open Learning

Friday picks:
• Una Daly, OCW Consortium, James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons, Angela Secrest, Houston Community College District, The Importance of Openness to Community Colleges.
• Jacqui Cain, College of the Redwoods, Malissa Attebery, Lone Star College, Creating open courseware using SoftChalk. (preregistration required)

Don’t forget to check out the great videos and project tours submitted by our members about community college OER projects and open textbooks. From our community, I want to thank Judy Baker, Barbara Illowsky, Robin Donaldson, Tom Caswell, John Makevich, and James Glapa-Grossklag for their unique viewpoints on open education.

Full project video listing here.

Finally, CCCOER will be hosting an Open Education reception on Sunday afternoon, March 4th at the Innovations 2012 in Philadelphia. Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons will be joining us and we will be sharing information about a number of OER projects and how to become more active in open education.   We have also invited the Saylor Foundation and SoftChalk as reception co-sponsors. Please invite your colleagues at the conference to attend.

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Open Education Week and Upcoming Events

January 23, 2012

With recent announcements and events happening this week and over the next few months, 2012 is shaping up to be an interesting OER year.  CCCOER Staff and board members will be involved in the following efforts and we invite you to join us.Open Education Week

Open Education Week March 5-10

March 5-10, 2012 has been named Open Education Week and is devoted to creating awareness of open education and its benefits worldwide.  Please consider contributing a short video, handouts, highlighting your college’s open educational projects.  Submit your participation or email us at openeducationwk@gmail.com by Jan. 31st.

Apple eBook Counter-Revolution

I’m sure no one missed the Apple announcement last Thursday and it has been a disappointment for many of us in the OER community.   Although Apple is offering its iBook Authoring tool for free, the output format is proprietary and content offered through the iBook 2 store will be subject to an exclusive licensing agreement between you the author and Apple.  Whether the exclusive license agreement applies to OER is still debatable but there does not appear to be an easy way to specify a Creative Commons license at this time.

Open Licensing for Educators Starts Today (January 23)

If you still have administrators and faculty who develop that glazed look when you mention Creative Commons and open licensing, there is a free online workshop being offered this week on Open Licensing for Educators. It is being facilitated by several well-known OER leaders including Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons; Wayne Mackintosh, Director of the OER Foundation; Jane Hornibrook, Public Lead, Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand.  It is going to be a fun and interactive way to learn about open licensing and make new online friends.

Open Online Math Homework System Webinar January 31st

Our first CCCOER webinar of 2012 Open Online Math Homework Systems will be presented by math instructors David Lippman of Pierce College and Philip Sousa of Phoenix College next Tuesday, January 31st at 10:00 am Pacific.  If you use online homework systems in your courses to help improve student learning, please tune in to find out more about an open online system where you can customize the questions for your courses.

Lest you think we are abandoning the humanities, February’s webinar will be on English composition featuring Dr. Joe Moxley and staff of the writingcommons.org site and will take place Tuesday, February 28, at 10:00 am Pacific.   More details to follow here.

CCCOER Attending Conferences

CCCOER staff and board members will be attending educational conferences over the next few months and we want to meet up with members and share ideas in-person.   Please let us know if you will be attending any of the following:

  • eLearning Long Beach, CA Feb 19-22
  • ACCCA Long Beach, CA February 22-23
  • League of Innovation, Philadelphia, March 5-10
  • AACC Annual Meeting Orlando, FL, April 21-24
  • ACRL Iowa, May 25

Contact me, Una Daly, (email: unatdaly AT ocwconsortium.org)

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WA State Policy Supports OER

July 13, 2010

Once again the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges shows leadership and innovation in promoting use of open educational resources.  Their recent announcement states that all competitive grants that they administer will have a Creative Commons Attribution license.  For details, see Cable Green’s brief and the latest Creative Commons blog posting. 

A Policy Review and Development Toolkit is available from OER Africa to help organizations consider their own OER policies.  Also see Open Educational Resources Policy Background.

For examples of policies that support use of open educational resources and open textbooks at a community college, see Foothill-De Anza Community College District Board Policies: 4185 Publication and Adoption of Instructional Materials and 6141 Public Domain.

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Free Webinar: Creative Commons Licensing & OER

January 5, 2010

Register with @ONE to view a free webinar on “Creative Commons Licensing and Open Educational Resources” with Jane Park Wed, 03/24/2010 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm (Pacific Time). 

The webinar will address: “What is Creative Commons? How did it originate? And how did it become part and parcel of worldwide movements towards open education, open scientific practices, and open culture? ccLearn, the education division of Creative Commons, answers these basic questions, then explains how CC is integral to the future of educational practices that capitalize on transformative technologies in innovative and completely legal ways. Included is a brief overview of the licenses and examples of educational projects and organizations using CC licenses.”

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Publish Your OER

December 13, 2009

ccLearn offers recommendations for publishing open educational resources on the Internet by specifying Terms of Use and copyright licenses for sites hosting open educational resources.

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How to Publish Your OER

December 13, 2009

Find out where and how to publish your content under an open license.

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Sharing Creative Works An Illustrated Primer

December 13, 2009

Still confused about open licensing?  Take a look at ‘Sharing Creative Works An Illustrated Primer’ about Creative Commons licenses.

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