Posts filed under ‘Open Educational Resources’
Press From Open Course Library Launch
Hot off the press…
Seattle Times: Low-cost textbooks for college students make debut
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016659112_opencourses01m.html
Plus a few others:
- Inside Higher Ed (Nov. 1, 2011)
- 97.3 KIRO FM (Oct. 31, 2011)
- opensource.com (Oct. 31, 2011)
- CBSPhilly.com (Oct. 31, 2011)
Open Course Library Launched
The highly anticipated Open Course Library was launched this morning during a telephone press conference.
During the call, reporters — from the Associated Press, Washington Post, USA Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Seattle Times, to name just a few — got in-depth information including new estimates of textbook savings to students and families, from our expert panel:
- Shaunta Hyde, State Board member, Director of Global Aviation Policy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Tom Caswell, SBCTC, project lead and Open Education policy associate
- Reuven Carlyle, Washington State Representative, 36th District (D-Seattle), early champion of Open Education Resources in the state
- Nicole Allen, Student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) textbook advocate, and a nationally recognized expert on textbook costs
- Michael Kenyon, Green River Community College mathematics instructor
- Lindsey Cassels, Clover Park Technical College esthetics sciences student
More details:
Read news release Open Course Library launch marks the beginning of the end of $200 textbooks
Listen to telephone press conference
Visit the Open Course Library
The Student PIRGs conducted an informal study to evaluate the Open Course Library’s impact on textbook costs. Read the report: Affordable Textbooks For Washington’s Students: A Cost Analysis of the Open Course Library
Open Course Library Wins OCW’s People’s Choice Award
Audience: All Users
News: The State Board’s Open Course Library (OCL) wins OpenCourseWare’s (OCW) People’s Choice Award for Most Accessible. In addition to the award it was also mentioned that voters liked that the OCL’s focus is targeted on lowering costs of textbooks for students.
To read more review the winner profile.
Creative Commons Announces Support Program for Department of Labor C3T Grantees
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Updated April 13, 2011
Applicants interested in partnering with Creative Commons for this support should incorporate the following paragraph into their C3T proposal:
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- Creative Commons is the global leader in open content licensing and will provide technical support in meeting the open licensing requirement and ensuring interoperability of C3T funded content.
- Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative brings expertise in applying results from the learning sciences to the design, implementation, evaluation and continuous improvement of open web-based learning environments.
- CAST is a pioneer in the field of Universal Design for Learning and will offer grantees technical support and enabling technologies to ensure that all of the digital content and learning environments developed in this project succeed with the widest range of learners possible.
- The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges is one of the leading community college systems in the nation fully embracing open educational resources and open licensing, and will develop best practices in adoption and use, policies and professional development that work for participating institutions.
Course Design and Best Practices: OLI and CAST will provide expertise and enabling technologies to ensure that all of the digital content and learning environments developed in this project are designed to succeed with the widest range of learners possible.
Web-Based Learning Environments: Plus Platform and Plus Co-Development: OLI and CAST will offer two additional options for deeper involvement in building web-based interactive environments. Institutions selected to participate in the “Plus Platform” option will have access to OLI’s web-based learning platform to host their own open educational resources. A group of multiple subgroups will be selected for “Plus Co-development” support and engage in a full design process for OER resulting in 3-4 complete learning environments created and hosted on the UDL-enhanced OLI web-based learning platform.
Making the Case: Policy and Best Practices: SBCTC will utilize its system-wide experience in adoption, re-mix, re-use and distribution of OER to help grantee institutions develop best practices and policies that take full advantage of the C3T grants and process. SBCTC will help grantees understand the direct connections between OER adoption and performance-based funding. SBCTC will develop and provide professional development on adoption and re-use of C3T open content for faculty, deans, provosts, presidents and trustees.
Cable Green Talks Open Educational Resources with KOHO Radio
Wenatchee Bureau Chief Steve Hair talked with our own Cable Green, Director of eLearning & Open Education. Listen to the 10 minute interview here.
