Nov 17 2009

Great Links to Open Textbooks

Published by pdonaghy at 6:05 am under Elearning and tagged: ,




Open Textbooks

The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a combined effort to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and in particular open textbooks in community college courses. An open textbook is defined as:

a body of educational content that is openly available over the web, by mail, or in a book store with a copyright that allows copying and distribution or, with the most open copyrights, allows modification of the content and even sale.

CCCOER Open Textbooks provides a growing list of links, covering a wide range of subject areas, to “OPEN and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses“. In some cases, the links also lead to useful podcasts and videos.

This is a great resource. On my first quick look, I found a comprehensive guide to using OpenOffice 3.o!

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2 Responses to “Great Links to Open Textbooks”

  1.   # James Corbetton 17 Nov 2009 at 8:35 am

    We need to make this happen here in Ireland Patricia.

  2.   # Patricia Donaghyon 20 Nov 2009 at 1:06 pm

    Hi James
    Would love to see this happening in Ireland. I am sure there is lots of relevant content already ‘out there’, which just needs some modifying or addition.
    However, at this point, I can’t see what ‘consortium’ would take this on and how a critical mass of volunteers would be achieved.
    Patricia

    Discussion to continue in the wave :-)
    https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252B0OliTpwQA

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