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Making the Switch: Moving from Traditional to Electronic Textbooks Part 2: Finding Open Education and Creative Commons Resources

Making the Switch: Moving from Traditional to Electronic Textbooks Part 2: Finding Open Education and Creative Commons Resources | Everything open | Scoop.it

This is the second of a multipart series on how the El Paso ISD in El Paso Texas began the move from traditional paper textbooks to digital open textbooks.
In Part One [http://holtthink.tumblr.com/post/99909903725 ] of this series, we looked at the need to understand the cycle of adoption as basic in any strategy to shift from traditional textbooks to digital textbooks. At least in Texas, an optimal time to make the switch to digital textbooks would be when a major core area of textbooks are being adopted, This is because the maximum amount of funding is being given by the state to purchase instructional materials and it is a natural “break” in the textbook cycle.

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Bookworm Haven: 10 websites to get FREE e-books

Bookworm Haven: 10 websites to get FREE e-books | Everything open | Scoop.it
Score awesome e-books, audiobooks and comics (legally!) without shelling out a single centavo on these websites!
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An amazing list of free e-books!

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UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Search Results

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Search Results | Everything open | Scoop.it
This is pretty great: UC Press makes 194 e-books from its history catalog (and 700+ books total) open access http://t.co/zzw4LYZisG
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The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks

The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks | Everything open | Scoop.it
Every revolutionary age produces its own kind of nostalgia.
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Open Learning Recognition: Taking Open Educational Resources a Step Further

Open Learning Recognition: Taking Open Educational Resources a Step Further | Everything open | Scoop.it
This book presents the main outcomes of the OERtest project in six chapters.

 

This book presents the main outcomes of the OERtest project in six chapters. It provides the reader with the foundation for the development of envisaged framework, organised into the four topics: assessment methods; requirements and standards of resources; credentialisation, certification and recognition and inter-institutional collaboration. The third chapter is devoted to different scenarios of open learning in order to obtain in-depth understanding of the OER challenges and bring closer a basis for identifying vital differences among them to better address these challenges. - See more at: http://www.oer-europe.net/open_learning_recognition#sthash.ahPB725T.dpuf
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OAPEN Library

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Welcome to OAPENonline library and publication platform

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital preservation.

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