Hi there fellow open educators,
And here is an update on new open textbooks available from College Open Textbooks. May be
interesting to browse the site to see if there’s anything you might find useful,
Cheers,
Rosario
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An Update on the New College Open Textbooks
Since our re-launch in April, we've been adding content and kicked off an exciting
new project. Take a few moments and share our progress below.
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Textbook Listings
Since April, we've added over 50 open textbooks to our listings. They include the
complete catalog from the University of Georgia's Galileo repository and seven new
2nd editions from OpenStax. These new titles bring our total listings to over 750 open
textbooks.
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Peer Reviews
Peer reviews are more prominent on our new site, and this has led to an increase in the
number of educators who are offering to join our distinguished panel of peer reviewers.
We've added eight new reviews since April, with more in the pipeline.
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Success Stories
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hope that you will view these inspiring stories and pass them along to colleagues who may
be considering creating or adopting OER for their classes. Subscribe to the channel and
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We're Building an Open Textbook Search Engine
Much has changed in the OER universe since we first created College Open Textbooks. Ten
years ago, most open textbooks were self-published and scattered widely across the web.
Today we're seeing a steady increase in the number of curated repositories.
College Open Textbooks has a small team of volunteer web developers working on an
application to mine those repositories. Our prototype currently searches the repositories
of five organizations who have partnered with us (BC Campus, UGA's Galileo, Orange
Grove, OpenStax, and SUNY), as well as College Open Textbooks' own listings.
We're excited to announce that Charles Key, the Search Engine program manager, will
present our progress in two weeks at the upcoming Open Education Conference. If
you're at the conference, we invite you to attend our round table presentation on
Thursday, October 11 at 9:45 AM.
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