Challenge: Reimagine textbook resources that engage students in deep learning AFFORDABLY

Repositories, Open Educ. Resources,  and "multiple formats are combined to create non-textbook learning materials." are recommended by Steven J. Bell, Temple U. in "Views: Taming the Textbook Market", Inside Higher Ed, June 11, 2011
Excerpts:  
"The challenge lies in reimagining the textbook so that faculty construct the right set of learning materials that engages their students in deep learning, without bankrupting them. The open educational resources movement is already laying a foundation for that type of radical change.
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"Hope for mending what’s broken in that system is on the horizon. Scholars are publishing more frequently in open- and public-access journals. Faculty conducting research with National Institutes of Health grants must now deposit their accepted papers in a free, community-accessible database. New models where author payments are used to support open access are gaining traction. At a growing number of institutions faculty are passing resolutions to support open-access publishing. 
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Open Course Library Goals (Wash. State) "Getting from NIH to PBT"

Not Invented Here [NIH] to Proudly Borrowed from There [PBT]
- Cable Green quoting Steve Acker in Webinar 20110411
Goals for OpenCourseLibrary:

• design 81 high enrollment courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery 
• lower textbook costs for students (< $30) 
• provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses 
• our college system fully engages the global open educational resources discussion. 
• improve course completion rates through good design and affordability 

- excerpted from Washington State Student Completion Initiative opencourselibrary.org

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Cable Green posts here: http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu/

Open Course Library Blog: http://blog.ocl.sbctc.edu/

http://twitter.com/#!/opencourselib

Flat World Knowledge Open Textbooks

Now "in" Webinar - good prep for this Friday 4/15 "Publishing & Education - Synergistic or Symbiotic?"

TLT Group FridayLive! 4/15 2pm EDT   Free Registration
How can publishers and faculty [together?] help students learn better?
What does "publishing" mean today? Tomorrow?

Eric Frank, Flat World Knowledge  introduced his model for providing textbooks free (really) access via Web - by subsidy from sales of other versions of same "textbook".

TUTechDay 2011 Frugal Innovation Tweets - FridayLivelier!

Resources tlt.gs/FISEtempleu2011  Tweets tlt.gs/tutechdaytweets2011

Our first experiment using Twitter during a live campus-based event. 

Frugal Innovations 

for Student Engagement 

Collegial Sharing of TLT Improvements
 - Today, Beyond Us, Tomorrow!

We hoped to extend the benefits and reach of this live event, and to try an alternative to our usual FridayLive! onine event. We'll continue experimenting. We welcome your comments, suggestions. Steve Gilbert 

PS: You can continue using the “hashtag” #tutechday if you with to share a comment or suggestion about this event.  You can always see the schedule and register for FridayLive! for free at tlt.gs/frlv

Also see:

• Plan, resources for Steve Gilbert's opening keynote tlt.gs/FISEtempleu2011 
• TU Tech Day 2011 Program     
• Showcase (Arts & Tech)

Here are some links selected from Tweets below:

• Student comments about Prezi http://is.gd/RVZWEN
• Free resource educ videos digital.films.com/featuredvideos.aspx
• Sr. colleagues stretch comfort zone in safe ways in the Temple University "Faculty Mentors for the Future of Instructional Technology" Program, http://bit.ly/hKRfO9 
• Temple Arts and Technology Showcase, http://cot.ag/fab0LM 
• Also mentioned: Jing, screencast-o-matic

Here are selected Tweets that were generated during Temple University's “Tech Day” Friday, April 8, 2011:

4/8/11 - bunnysnsunshine 

Twitter is sometimes the fastest way to reach a person: your professor, a public figure or even your husband. #tutechday

4/8/11 - maranca 

RT @TLTGROUP: Technology extends what artists can do. Art extends the limits of technology. #tutechday.

4/8/11 - derekbruff 

@CathSchifter You can print out Prezis, but you generally wouldn't want to. #tutechday

4/8/11 - derekbruff 

@eileen_aitken We had a student blog about her experience using Prez: http://is.gd/RVZWEN #tutechday

4/8/11 - CreativeDynamix 

RT @blendedlib: "Frugal Innovations" - how do you keep improving with 2 much info, 2 little time and 2 few resources? One way - mentor others #tutechday

4/8/11 - derekbruff 

RT @donshappelle: Can you think of 2-3 colleagues who might benefit from learning about your improvement, and who might be likely to help others? #tutechday

4/8/11 - eileen_aitken 

#tutechday Screencast-O-matic is a Jing like program that let's you record up to 15 minutes instead of just 5 minutes.

4/8/11 - paire 

Prezis can be embedded directly into blackboard (not just a link to the presentation on the external site) #TUtechday

4/8/11 - paire 

How do we help more people take advantage more easily & more often of resources to which they are already entitled?#TUtechday

4/8/11 - donshappelle 

What do you most want to gain? What do you most cherish and not want to lose? What improvements can we make quickly and easily? #tutechday

4/8/11 - eileen_aitken 

#tutechday How often do you think informal mentoring/mentee relationships are formed?

4/8/11 - donshappelle 

Many faculty want to improve their own teaching, their students' learning, and to help their colleagues w/ similar commitments. #tutechday

4/8/11 - ka_weaver 

RT @blendedlib: "Frugal Innovations" - how do you keep improving with 2 much info, 2 little time and 2 few resources? One way - mentor others #tutechday

4/8/11 - Jerryhinkle 

What ideas are "shareworthy?" #tutechday

4/8/11 - TUinnovate 

Use "low threshold improvements" #tutechday

4/8/11 - donshappelle 

Frugal Innovations can enable, encourage, and support more effective, widespread, and rapid sharing of teaching improvements. #tutechday

4/8/11 - blendedlib 

"Education is almost as complex as government" SteveG...as a system higher ed isn't agile #tutechday

4/8/11 - TLTGROUP 

SWG BIOTWEET Aspire2B good father/husband, teacher/learner, Enable/encourage use info tech improve edu - respectfully/responsibly #tutechday

4/8/11 - TLTGROUP 

Frugal Innovations=enable continue improve teach/learn w tech when $/time scarce via abundant free/lowcost options#tutechday SAMPLE TWEET

4/8/11 - TLTGROUP 

Sr. colleagues stretch comfort zone in safe ways: 1-to-1: #tutechday via Temple U. mentoring program ripple eff...http://bit.ly/hKRfO9 

Videorecording Lectures - Changes Teaching?

Student (re)watching class improves learning? 
Teacher watching own class improves teaching?

"Professor Shankar is working on his second semester of recorded videos, and says that the experience has improved his teaching. This time around, he is trying to liven up his lectures.... 'since any mistake would affect larger numbers of students listening online,' he says, he thinks harder about every topic he teaches in the classroom." Higher Education Reimagined With Online Courseware - Education Life - NYTimes.com: By KATIE HAFNER, Published: April 16, 2010

Not clickable - link from image in NYT article

Session 1 - Course Introduction and Newtonian Mechanics — Open Yale Courses  2010? PHYS 200: Fundamentals of Physics, Ramamurti Shankar, John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics, Yale University

"Think You'll Make Big Bucks in Online Ed? Not So Fast, Experts Say"

 "“If you look back over time, and read anything about the major online initiatives that have failed,” he told the audience, “one of the things that’s characteristic of all of them is they went into business intending to make a lot of money on online learning and blended learning. It just doesn’t happen that way.”"   -  Joel Hartman, vice provost and chief information officer at the University of Central Florida, quoted in Think You'll Make Big Bucks in Online Ed? Not So Fast, Experts Say - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education


Join us today for intro to more realistic approach - targeting those who cannot afford higher ed at all: "Tuition-Free Univ. - U. of the People"  Friday, April 1, 2011 2:00 pm (ET) 

Friday Live! Registration   More info...tlt.gs/UnivofPpl