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Statement from co-founder... "In a nutshell, we publish free and low-cost print and electronic textbooks, all of which are professionally edited, peer-reviewed, and typeset, under a Creative Commons BY-SA-NC license. My colleague Andrew Bender succinctly calls us the "Red Hat of textbooks." Like Red Hat, we flourish by freely distributing our core content and charging reasonable fees for value-added versions of our books. Most people respond favorably and tell us that what we are doing is exciting and necessary. Even if they do not understand OER or the publishing business, everyone reacts the same way to the 'Textbook Problem'."

Pearson ran a survey about the use of Social Media in teaching, here is the summar: ■64.4 percent of faculty use social media for their personal lives, 33.8 percent use it for teaching ■41 percent for those under age 35 compared to 30 percent for those over age 55 reported using social media in their teaching ■Faculty in the Humanities and Arts, Professions and Applied Sciences, and the Social Sciences use social media at higher rates than those in Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science ■Blogs and wikis are preferred for teaching, while Facebook or LinkedIn are used more for social and professional connections ■88 percent of faculty, regardless of discipline, reported using online video in the classroom

A variety of daily Speaker Sessions at the Auditorium - The Expo with leading vendor demos and prize drawings - Chat functions to ask questions of your peers and grow your professional network NO COST registration is complimentary because of the generous support of the event sponsors and exhibitors.