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"We are are very pleased to announce that all Flat World Knowledge textbooks published under an open license are permanently and freely available from Saylor.org - free to read, free to download, free to share and remix under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license."

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"Overall, the results of this study clearly show that the Open Course Library will not only save students millions on textbooks, but also generate a considerable return on the state's investment. Even in the unlikely case that the faculty who created the courses are the only ones who use them, the program will essentially pay for itself in textbook savings within the first year. "

"Four pioneers from the Open Educational Resources community offered their insights into "The transformative potential of Open Educational Resources (OER)" at the SPARC-ACRL Forum, held during the 2009 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Denver, CO."

"The Utah Open Textbook project is examining the deeper learning and cost savings that can be achieved when open textbooks replace traditional, expensive textbooks in public high school science classrooms. "

"Welcome to Introduction to Openness in Education, Winter 2012. This course provides a broad overview of the ways in which openness impacts many areas of education - curriculum, instruction, learning, policy, technology, research, and finance. "

"This chapter looks at the production and promotion of health open educational resources (OER) at the University of Ghana (UG) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Both institutions initially chose to produce materials from scratch rather than build upon existing OER, and then subsequently shared the materials through a global distribution network to advance health education across the continent. T"

"The School of Open is a collaboration between Creative Commons and P2PU (Peer 2 Peer University). Its aim is to provide easily digestible educational exercises, resources, and professional development courses that help individuals and institutions learn about and employ open tools, such as the CC licenses. "

The California Community Colleges Board of Governors established the Open Educational Resources Center for California as a statewide pilot program "to provide faculty and staff from community college districts around the state with the information, methods and instructional materials to establish open education resources centers" on their campuses.

"After the second day of the Open Education Conference here in Park City, Utah, and we're beginning to see some definite themes developing across many of the presentations. Nowhere was this more apparent than in this morning's two keynote addresses, by Josh Jarrett of the Gates Foundation and by Jim Groom of the University of Mary Washington. These two presenters could not have been more different, both in style and in their visions of the future of open education."

"The title of my presentation is "Doorways: Opening, Extending, & Multiplying the Course." I'm going to start by telling a bunch of stories about the effect openness has had at UMW, especially through serendipitous contact made via student work on UMW Blogs. "

"This document discusses the need for educators to openly share their resources and make them freely available for others to use.3 The open educational resources movement continues to gain attention with an announcement from MIT who recently unveiled their MITx program, which will begin to grant certificates for students who complete a defined number of open courses through the institution.4 The Internet resources listed here comprise a sampling of content focused primarily at the college and university level. "

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

Welcome to the Open.Michigan wiki! This wiki is a space for documentation and ideas related to the development of the Open.Michigan initiative. Open.Michigan is a University of Michigan initiative that enables faculty, students, staff and others to share educational resources and research with the global learning community.

Grad dean at Empire State: " it is the role of the graduate school-its faculty as well as its students-to create freely available materials for graduate school preparation. The School for Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State College has already begun, but still needs further development in the creation of, in its online orientation-we must remain focused on that charge and mission. "

"Yale is inaugurating a new series of books based on its popular open courses."

Empire State Grad Studies' open education initiative

Open source textbook publisher projects $1M in savings OpenStax has been well received on college campuses as textbook prices remain stubbornly high College students in some of the most heavily attended courses in the country will eclipse $1 million in textbook savings after a Rice University-based publisher had 13,000 open-source books downloaded since June.

"Last week, the City University of New York (CUNY) unveiled its plans to create a "Commons in a Box," an open-source toolkit to help colleges and universities "roll their own" academic networks. The project will help replicate CUNY's Academic Commons at other schools."