OERandtheLiberalArts

"Pearson's latest approach to open educational resources (OER) - the free online learning materials that have proliferated over the last decade and a half, posing a threat to traditional publishers. The education and media company today wil unveil Project Blue Sky, a search engine to help instructors locate free materials from popular OER repositories."

Pearson again. These guys are on the march.

Good sketch.

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Visual Notes of Honourable John Yap's announcement at #opened12 / Giulia Forsythe / CC BY-NC-SA The government of British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province, has announced its support for the creation of open textbooks for the 40 most popular first- and second-year courses in the province's public post-secondary system.

Alan Levine

"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. "

"Our findings might surprise you. We discovered that when we consider all greenhouse-gas emissions over the life cycle of the textbook, from raw-material production to disposal or reuse, the differences between the two types of textbooks are actually quite small. Measured in pounds of carbon-dioxide equivalent (CO2e), a common unit used to measure greenhouse-gas emissions, the use of a traditional textbook resulted in approximately 9.0 pounds of CO2e per student per course, versus 7.8 pounds of CO2e for an e-textbook."

"Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Thursday to create a website on which popular textbooks can be downloaded for free. Twin bills by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) will give students free digital access to 50 core textbooks for lower-division courses offered by the University of California, California State University and California Community College systems. Hard copies of the texts would cost $20."

List of lists.

Lets you make an exportable ebook using whatever Wikipedia articles you want.

Nice library idea.

Furman videos on writing

Good index of MOOC research.

"Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty."

Note the emphasis on open: "I mean open source technology, available for anyone to use for free; open educational resources; content that people produce and put on the Internet for everyone to use. And the new Internet culture of social networking, where people share, teach and learn from each other for free. " And accreditation.