Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

Self-paced Tutorials about Open Textbooks

• Open Textbook Adoption Quick Start
• Open Textbook Adoption (5 steps)
• Google Knols
  • “Peer Review”   
  • “Adopt Open and Free Textbooks” 
• What are Open Textbooks?
• Textbook Writing Tutorial
• Printing Books from Wikibooks
• How to Create Free Textbooks – WikiEducator
• How to Lay-out a Book with OpenOffice.org

Self-paced Tutorials about Open Educational Resources

• Introduction to Open Educational Resources (Word document)
• Introduction to OER: Self-Paced Tutorial (Connexions)
• The “How Tos” of OER Commons
• Overview of OER (must have iTunes installed)
• Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving: Open Educational Resources (2/11/08 webinar)
• OER Movement Timeline
• OER Handbook for Educators
• Quick Guide
• Why OER?
• OER Workshop Toolkit
• Intute: Virtual Training Suite
• Digital Content in the Classroom (toolkit)
• Teaching Every Student (universal design)
• Wikieducator tutorial/Editing using open office
• Open-Licensed Content: The Missing Piece
• Open Educational Resources: Share, Remix, Learn
• SCoPE – OER Session

Training

• Apply CC Licenses
• Case for Free Use
• CC Shared Culture
• Composing OER
• Distruptive Innovation
• DIY Open Content
• Educator Mini-handbook
• ETL OER
• Faculty Worksheet
• FHSST How-To
• Instructional Architect OCW
• Intro to OER Tutorial
• OER Course SCoPE
• OER Self-Paced Tutorial
• OER Workshop
• OER Workshop Toolkit
• OnCoReBlue Print Webinars
• Open Textbook Adoption
• Open Textbook Webinar
• Open Training Platform
• Open|Web|Content|Edu Course
• Publishing Open Content
• Quick Guide
• SCoPE OER Seminar
• The Role of University Faculty in OER
• Use CC License
• Why OER?
• Why Remix OERs?
• Visual Literacy

Blogs

• OER Blogs
• Save $$ with Free and Open Textbooks, @ONE Lunch ‘n Learn Desktop Seminar scheduled for Tuesday, July 28th at noon (PST)
• Introduction Booklet and Webinar from Development Gateway Foundation
• Composing free and open online educational resources (Wikiversity online course) 
• “Open Content for Open Minds: Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources” at the Sloan-C 2008 International Symposium on May 9, 2008 in Carefree, Arizona.  The presentation slideshow is available for viewing at Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/bakerjudy/open-content-opens-minds)
• The CCCOER’s Open Textbook Collaborative has a lens on Connexions which lists open textbooks that have been peer reviewed (see http://cnx.org/lenses/ccotp/endorsements)
• Community College Open Textbook Collaborative MERLOT Collection - an open textbook list in order to provide educators with an opportunity to provide their own reviews and find the reviews submitted by others. 

MERLOT Open Textbook Project

• The Student PIRGs and MERLOT formed a strategic alliance to promote use of open textbooks with the new Open Textbooks Project.  Visitors to MERLOT can now find open textbooks using the Open Textbook category under Advanced Search > Material Type. 
• See open textbooks listed at MERLOT.  MERLOT members are encouraged to provide evaluation and commentary on the listed open textbooks.  For details, visit MERLOT Innovations.

Google Books

On August 13, 2009, Google announced that authors can now use Google Books to distribute their Creative Commons licensed work.  Authors benefit from using a CC license because it allows them to distribute their work more widely and clearly communicate how they want the content to be used and shared.  Readers who download these books can use the work in ways specified by the license such as giving proper credit to the author on any remixes or further public distributions.

To date, nine open-access books are available for download from Google Books:

• 55 Ways to Have Fun with Google by Lenssen
• Blown to Bits by Abelson, Ledeen & Lewis
• Bound by Law? by Aoki, Boyle & Jenkins
• Code: Version 2 by Lessig
• Democratizing Innovation by von Hippel
• Federal Budget Deficits: America’s great consumption binge by Courant & Gramlich
• The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It by Zittrain
• Little Brother by Doctorow
• A World’s Fair for the Global Village by Malamud

Open Licensed Photos

Educators seeking images for slideshow presentations can now find Creative Commons open licensed photos using Flickr, Google, and Picasa.