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Open Textbook Adoption and Use: Implications for Teachers and Learners
The Community College Open Textbook Project (CCOTP) was developed to support the use of textbooks that are freely available and accessible online, and that can be adapted by teachers and learners to meet their unique needs and contexts. This article presents the...
Big Ideas and Reform Fatigue: Working with Educators to Redesign Learning
Since Horace Mann introduced the common school in the early 19th century, the United States has been no stranger to big ideas in education. In the last century, the introduction of the GI Bill and the creation of community colleges expanded access to higher education...
Building Open Educational Resources from the Ground Up: South Africa’s Free High School Science Texts
The relatively new field of open educational resources (OER) is just now receiving more widespread attention and study. As such, there have been few opportunities thus far to share knowledge across program, organizational and national boundaries. This article presents...
Open Educational Resources: Inquiring Into Author Reuse Behaviors
For teachers and learners, the proliferation of Open Educational Resources (OER), along with advances in information technologies, has meant centralized access to materials and the possibility of creating, using, and reusing OER globally, collaboratively, and across...
Turning Knowledge Into Action: What’s Data Got to Do With It?
This 2004 release published by the League of Innovation discusses the ways in which community colleges combine technology with inquiry-based decision-making in order to take fullest advantage of web-based interfaces, data warehouses, and a culture of inquiry that...