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Tag Archives: Open textbook
Grants from Affordable Learning Georgia—Round 11 Deadline: January 22
Textbook costs for students can be significant, and students report that this cost barrier often has a negative impact on their success. If you are interested in reducing textbook costs for your students by adopting, adapting or creating course materials … Continue reading
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Tagged Grants, OER, open educational resources, Open textbook, textbook transformation grants, textbooks
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Featured Open Educational Resource: Psychology Textbooks from the Noba Collection
The Noba Collection is a growing collection of openly licensed psychology related textbooks. Instructors can build their own textbooks from adaptable modules or choose from ready-made textbooks. The project aims to lower costs for students, make psychology textbooks freely available … Continue reading
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Tagged OER, Open Education Week, Open textbook
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Featured Open Educational Resource: The American Yawp
Already in use at Georgia State University and at the University of Georgia, American Yawp by Ben Wright and Joseph Locke (eds.) won a 2014 Digital Humanities Award for Best Use of Digital Humanities for Public Engagement. 2015-2016 Edition Updates … Continue reading
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Tagged history, OER, Open Education Week, Open textbook
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Featured Open Educational Resource: The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Willey, Dr. Zoe Salloom, and Emerson Stewart. This team received an Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Award for creating an outstanding free e-textbook for the course, BUSA 2106: The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business. The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Uncategorized
Tagged Business, Law, OER, Open Education Week, Open textbook
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Featured Open Educational Resource: PLOS (Public Library of Science)
Sometimes it’s difficult to locate high quality materials that can be shared and adapted. Since 2001, PLOS (Public Library of Science) has been on a mission to solve this problem. Today, PLOS has published over 140,000 peer reviewed articles. Each … Continue reading
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Open Education Week (March7-11)
Open Education Week starts today! Check back with the GSU Library Blog each day this week as we highlight OER (Open Educational Resources) each day. Today, we’ll highlight a few high quality open textbooks housed in the GSU library. All … Continue reading
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Tagged OER, Open Education Week, Open textbook
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