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Lisa Spiro

Our Story | Flat World Knowledge - 0 views

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    We preserve the best of the old - books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards. Then we flip it all on its head. Our books are free online. We offer convenient, low-cost choices for students - softcovers for under $30, audio books and chapters, self-print options, and more. Our books are open for instructors to modify and make their own (for their own course - not for anybody else's). Our books are the hub of a social learning network where students learn from the book and each other.
Lisa Spiro

Runestone Interactive - 2 views

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    "The goal of runestone interactive is to provide the tools, content, and hosting for high quality, interactive computer science textbooks. Everything is available under an open source license. There are really two main branches of the Runestone interactive project: To provide tools for building interactive textbooks. Our ultimate vision is to become 'The LaTeX of interactive publishing.' To this end we have built a platform based on Sphinx, comprised of several extensions for building interactive books. To provide hosting for interactive textbooks. We have three books that we host on this site for free, without registration or login required. We can also host a custom book for your course. If you are an instructor and looking to host your own course here is what you get: You can choose which modules you want to include. Your students get login-based access to their book so they can save their work, turn in homework right from the book, and take notes in the scratch edtitor popups. You get access to the grading interface Runestone interactive is a project of Luther College. "
Rebecca Davis

John Williams White-First Greek Book - 0 views

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    "A Digital Tutorial For Ancient Greek Based on White's First Greek Book"
Lisa Spiro

Yale's Open Courses Inspire a New Series of Old-Fashioned Books | Open Culture - 0 views

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

The Directory of Open Access Books: a new service of OAPEN in partnership with OpenEdition | Open Electronic Publishing - 0 views

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    "OAPEN is pleased to announce a new service for Open Access monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository."
Lisa Spiro

Education Start-up Wins Grant | News | The Harvard Crimson - 1 views

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    "Wissner-Gross demonstrated their "Hands-On Calculus" book, set to roll out in a couple of weeks. Containing far less text than the average textbook-he estimated it would only be around 50 pages if printed-it primarily uses interactive activities, such as asking students to find a function that is its own derivative by finger-drawing functions and watching the derivatives change in real-time."
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    Lots of etextbook action from Harvard.
Lisa Spiro

H20, Adaptable Digital Textbooks | Office for Scholarly Communication - 3 views

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    "This project seeks to expand the beta version of a Web-based platform for creating, editing, organizing, consuming, and sharing course materials. We envision building a corpus of open source materials available for dynamic use by the faculty and students at Harvard and beyond. Instead of locking down materials in formalized casebooks, we believe that course books can be "free" (as in free speech) for everyone to access and build upon."
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    Good to see.
Lisa Spiro

About | Sustainable Texts - 0 views

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    "This Open Education project has two main strands: We are developing an e-book which will be a collection of university academics' narratives about their experiences of learning and teaching in their discipline. We are engaging with institutional policy surrounding OER resources as well afunding OERs."
Lisa Spiro

Frequently Questioned Answers: Not-quite-open library access for Open Education - 0 views

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    "One of the big problems for the Open Education Movement has been the lack of access to scholarly resources, such as the scholarly journals that libraries subscribe to individually or as part of article databases. As anyone who has tried to use Google Scholar or Google Books for research knows, you could end up spending a huge amount of money to buy access to the articles and eBooks that you need. And some things just aren't available online at all."
Lisa Spiro

About Us | Eleven Learning - 0 views

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    "Eleven Learning publishes open-source, community-powered textbooks and etextbooks. Our books are more relevant, more up-to-date, and less expensive. Our product offerings include a web-based textbook reading interface and a community-commenting platform for textbook authors and educators. Eleven Learning is a privately held corporation. I"
Lisa Spiro

How Open Education is Changing the Texture of Content | MindShift - 1 views

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    "Instruction that was structured linearly, captured in books that were all-inclusive monoliths with a predetermined progression for a uniform, somewhat "creamy" consistency, is shifting to newer forms of instructional content that are more "chunky," beginning as a scattered landscape of digital pieces that are then assembled to support full courses" --> OER supports that shift
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    Interesting to compare with MOOCs, whose selling point is a continuous - er, creamy - experience.
Lisa Spiro

Open Yale Courses heads to print | Yale Daily News - 0 views

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    The Open Yale Courses program, which broadcasts select Yale lectures online, will offer popular courses through a more traditional medium starting this spring: a book
Lisa Spiro

OER Rapid Innovation Call: Preview : Digital Infrastructure Team - 0 views

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    JISC: "Open Education, open academic practice, open scholarship and open content all need digital infrastructure to thrive. The emphasis in this Call is on making use of existing tools, services and standards, to meet clearly articulated use cases. Areas to bid to will include: A: Open content and academic profiles B: Enhancing platforms for open content C: Enhancing tools and services for open e-books D: Search log analysis E: SEO of common platforms and format types for OER F: Open Call, including:"
Lisa Spiro

Rice U. Hopes Mix of Grants and 'Add Ons' Will Support Free Textbooks - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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    "Rice University this year started an unusual textbook-publishing venture whose books are free to download thanks to a mix of grants and revenue from optional "add ons," such as homework problem sets. Although it has published only two titles-for introductory courses in physics and sociology-officials announced on Tuesday that more than 13,000 students had downloaded them in the 10 weeks they've been available."
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    Neat idea. A variation on freemium.
Lisa Spiro

ChemWiki: The Dynamic Chemistry Textbook - ChemWiki - 0 views

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    "The ChemWiki project is a collaborative approach toward chemistry education where an Open Access textbook environment is constantly being written and re-written partly by students and partly by faculty members resulting in a free Chemistry textbook to supplement conventional paper-based books."
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