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Takeaways: "A four-year university-wide study of students' e-textbook practices found that e-textbook use has increased, particularly among younger students. The major barriers - including a student preference for print and unfamiliarity with e-textbooks - show signs of being alleviated. Other factors related to mobile device access and pedagogically effective e-textbooks show little change over the study period. Instructor practices have improved, but there is still room for growth, with implications for focused professional development."

An overview of good instructional development: In a nutshell, the backwards process In writing curriculum or developing instructional tasks the following need to be considered. If you use the metaphor of those mylar pictures in textbooks that showed the varied layers of topography, or parts of the human anatomy, then writing curriculum is a similar process it is like developing a series of layers until it becomes a whole picture.

Article that includes tips/arguments for OER and a list of 18 OER sites every educator should know about. Includes information about spreading OER use across campus. (This is an article in Campus Technology magazine -- free subscription online if you're unable to access it via the link here.)