A joint initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities will make highly regarded out of print books in the humanities into free e-books with Creative Commons licenses. See the Chronicle post and the announcement at NEH, Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Books. This is great news for OER as it puts more scholarly content into more people’s hands.
The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) has an Open Textbook Initiative in which Open textbooks are rigorously reviewed for a stamp of approval. This is a very helpful project as the most common question about open educational resources is about the quality of the material. AIM Editorial Board has created a list of Approved Textbooks
March 9-13 is Open Education Week! Check out the Facebook page at Open Education Week Facebook. We will be posting even
ts for Open Education Week at UH in the next few weeks.
We are gathering information about courses that will be Zero Textbook Costs for students this Summer. So far, there are 25 courses that will provide students with the materials they need to perform well in the class. Here is a list of the classes:
AMST 350; ANTH 313, 316, 350, and 481; COM 390; ECON 332; ES 318; ETEC 647B; GEOL 100 and 100L; HIST 321, 322; HON 303; LAIS 380; LTEC 612; MATH 111, 112, and 134; PHIL 100, 317; SPED 412; WS 151, 345, 350, and 453.
This is a wonderful start for the UH OER movement! Stay tuned for more courses to be listed.
Check out the Leeward Community College Library OER news at OER@Leeward.
Dr. William Chismar, Dean of the Outreach College. will talk about the Outreach College’s Open Education Resources initiatives; Tuesday October 21, 2014; 1:30-2:30 pm; Hamilton Library, Room 301
Slides of talk:
Cable Green talk April 30, 2014