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My vision for an open textbook

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As I announced in an earlier post, I'm planning to explore the idea of writing and publishing an open textbook, on the topic of...

Survey finds ‘little use’ of open textbooks in Washington State’s colleges

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OnCampus Research (2013) Open Course Library Survey Results OnCampus Research, December 2013 Biemiller, L. (2014) Open Course Library Sees Little Use in Washington’s Community Colleges Chronicle...

Why I decided to try open publishing

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  In an earlier post, I announced that I was going to write a textbook for open publishing and track my progress through a series...

Writing an open textbook: tracking an author’s perspective

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Image © to thePC, 2014One of the key developments in online learning is the open textbook. These are textbooks that are published and available...

2020 Vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond

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 Taking the long view Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail on  January 4 wrote an interesting piece on prediction, entitled: "Gadgets alone don't make...

Conference in Crete on quality in open education

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What: SCOPE 2014: Changing the trajectory: quality for opening up education 'In order to make open learning and education more relevant and feasible for organizations as...

Pakistani Punjab creates open content platform

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Business Standard (2014) Pakistani Punjab to launch e-learning platform, Lahore, Pakistan, January 5 The provincial government of the Punjab, Pakistan, though its Punjab Information Technology...

Productivity and online learning redux

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Summarizing the previous posts In previous posts (see end of this post), I tried to identify a range of areas where online learning might enable...

An analysis of OERs for adult education in Europe

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Falconer, I. et al. (2013) Overview and Analysis of Practices with Open Educational Resources in Adult Education in Europe Seville, Spain: European Commission Institute for Prospective...

Look back in anger? A review of online learning in 2013

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Well, where did 2013 go? It seems like only last week I was writing the 2012 review!This year, I did better with my predictions...