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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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Find OER | Open Professionals Education Network

Find OER | Open Professionals Education Network | Everything open | Scoop.it

Reusing existing Open Educational Resources (OER) can save significant time and effort. The OPEN partners recommend TAACCCT grantees invest up-front time finding OER to reuse rather than starting development of new educational resources right away. A significant benefit of OER is that they provide source material to build your development efforts around. No need to invest development effort in creating something that already exists.

OER come in a wide variety of types. Many educators are simply looking for individual media elements to use within their courses, such as photos, graphics, videos, and audio, that are openly licensed in a way that freely permits education use.

The page below will help you find openly licensed media elements to use within your courses. To jump directly to what you are searching for use these links:
General Search
Photo/Image Search
Video Search
Audio/Music Search

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