The document discusses the high cost of textbooks and supplementary materials for students and proposes open education as an alternative. It analyzes different models for openly developing and sharing educational content, including open courseware repositories and wikis. It advocates for the creation of open learning communities to collaboratively develop open educational resources using common standards and licensing to make the content more searchable, findable, and usable across different platforms.
17. Open eLearning Production Patch Commit Bug Reports Feature Requests Patch Submit Prioritize Bug / Feature Priorities Release Eval Adoption Release Bug Tracker Content Repository Collection Version Faculty / Students Writers / Developers Editors / SMEs Inst Designers
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19. Time To Produce a Textbook Source: American Association of Publishers
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21. Open Content Searchability OCW Connexions Merlot Wikipedia Internet Archive Project Gutenberg I know there's cool stuff out there. Where can I find it?
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24. Open Content Findability OCW Connexions Merlot Wikipedia Internet Archive Project Gutenberg All this great stuff! What's the best for me?
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27. Open Content Obtainability OCW Connexions Merlot Wikipedia Internet Archive Project Gutenberg LMS I found some content. How do I use it?
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