OERandtheLiberalArts

"Lumen Learning, a new company that will offer guidance and support to institutions looking to use those resources. One of the company's goals is to collaborate with colleges to develop an associate degree in business administration that can be completed entirely with free open-education materials."

Modular, open textbook to teach Critical Thinking; by Peter Bradley of McDaniel

"Why not take advantage of the informational system that the academy inspired to deliver information about the academy? All the tasks of developing and producing a textbook-research, writing, reviewing, editing, distributing and using-can be improved by the open collaboration of distributed network of experts."

" This is an archive of examples for Critical Thinking instruction that is developed and maintained by instructors of Critical Thinking. The standard 'star rating' and 'comment' features of wordpress will allow us to track student interest in a precise way. The classification system will allow instructors to tailor examples to disciplinary interest, rather than just general ideas. See Textbooks 2.0 for a discussion of the power of the medium itself."

OER for art

" The main areas of library's involvement are: description and classification, management, preservation, dissemination, and promotion of OER. In order to support these activities, librarians provided expertise in information science areas, especially: metadata standards, vocabularies, indexing and classification, information retrieval, information literacy, and repository technology and management. It was also found, however, that librarians needed to develop expertise in different areas, including SEO and IPR and licensing options, but mainly about e-learning and OER knowledge, technologies and standards."

Bryan Alexander's AAC&U presentation

Big outreach to Latin America.

"Dear SUNY Faculty, We would like you to consider being one of the first to produce an Open SUNY Textbook. We invite you to apply by submitting a brief proposal by December 17th to publish your textbook as an open educational resource and print-on-demand title, made possible thanks to a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant and the support of SUNY Libraries & SUNY Press. If selected, you will receive an award of $3,000 upon the completion of all work and required forms. An additional $1,000 will be paid to you if you decide to include and assess student involvement in the design and development of the textbook.* Although an open textbook is free online, you will be eligible to earn royalties on sales of the print-on-demand edition, if applicable."