OER

=**Open Education Resources**=

These are some open education resources and open source textbooks we should consider for our projects here in the district: > **presented on this textbook. **
 * **Some Specific Examples**
 * **[|A High School Biology Textbook] **
 * **[|Textbooks for the California Learning Resource Network] – These textbooks have ****already undergone peer-review. **
 * **[|Mobile ESL] - Athabasca University **
 * **[|Intermediate Algebra] - College of the Redwood's own Dave Arnold **
 * **[|Pre-Algebra] - College of the Redwood's math textbook **


 * Open Textbook Collections**
 * [|Community College Open Textbook Collaborative] - This should be our first stop.I liked the amount of finished work represented by this project and the fact that they have English textbooks.
 * [|OER Commons] - There are a lot of textbooks here that will be of interest to us.Under recommended resources click on "[|textbooks]."
 * [|Connexions] - This is a site that features reusable modules and learning objects as well as some texts.
 * [|Textbook Revolution] - gathering place for books and reviews. || media type="custom" key="20565992" ||
 * Open Textbook Collections**
 * [|Community College Open Textbook Collaborative] - This should be our first stop. I liked the amount of finished work represented by this project and the fact that they have English textbooks.
 * [|OER Commons] - There are a lot of textbooks here that will be of interest to us. Under recommended resources click on "[|textbooks]."
 * [|Connexions] - This is a site that features reusable modules and learning objects as well as some texts.
 * [|Textbook Revolution] - gathering place for books and reviews.


 * Commercial Options?**
 * [|Flatworld Knowledge]
 * [|Textbook Media]


 * Project Sites for OER and Open Textbooks**
 * [|Sophia Open Content Initiative] - This is from De Anza and a good example of a grant-driven project in California.
 * [|Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources] - This project site has a lot of useful links.
 * [|Open Education Resources Center for California] - This is a good site for more information and resources in California.
 * [|Community College Open Textbook Collaborative] - a collection of colleges, agencies, and educational non-profits supporting open textbooks.
 * [|Curriki] - "Curriki's mission is to provide free, high-quality curricula and education resources to teachers, students and parents around the world."
 * "[|Open Equal Free]" - a blog of tools for creating open content. Their free media guide is quite useful.


 * My Current Projects**
 * Open Psychology Text (in progress)
 * Open Mobile Learning Platform (in progress)
 * [|Open Textbook Advocate Training]
 * [|Open Educational Resources Center for California]
 * [|Adopting Open Textbooks]
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