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Welcome!

About The Community College Open Textbook Collaborative


Please join the College Open Textbooks Professional Network and participate in the conversation and development of open textbooks that benefit all college students.   Become an open textbook advocate/trainer or open textbook reviewer, or both.


Be sure to view the videos below.

Website updated July 27, 2010

Click to join the collegeopentextbooks.org Professional Network
Click to join the collegeopentextbooks.org Professional Network
 
The Community College Open Textbook Collaborative*, funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, educational nonprofits, and other education-related organizations.
 
The collaborative provides training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, an online professional network, support for authors opening their resources, and other services. 

What is an "Open Textbook?"
That's what we're working to define. We know it has to be
  • free, or very nearly free,
  • easy to use, get and pass around,
  • editable so instructors can customize content,
  • cross-platform compatible,
  • printable,
  • and accessible so it works with adaptive technology.
That's just the short list.

Help us shape and define what open textbooks turn out to be. Your voice will help create open textbook standards and guide development. We need you!

For organizations and community colleges interested in joining - Please contact us.

For individuals - please join the
College Open Textbooks Professional Network and participate in the conversation and development of open textbooks that benefit all college students.
 

 *Member Organizations


 
Dr. Lisa McDonnell
Dr. Lisa McDonnell (Click to view video)
"Open Textbook Adoption" (CC-BY-SA*) (video, ~9 min., 27MB, wmv format) Created by Paul Marks.

Dr. Lisa McDonnell of St. Petersburg College persuasively discusses the needs of her students and how an open textbook fulfilled those needs by giving her control of textbook content.

Click the link to view: "Open Textbook Adoption"
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License: Creative Commons, Attribution, Share-Alike

 
 
 
Erik Christensen (click to play video)
Erik Christensen (click to play video)
"Open Textbook Testimonial" (CC-BY-SA*) (~8 min., 28MB, YouTube® format)
Created and narrated by physics Professor Erik Christensen of South Florida Community College.

A collegeopentextbook.org advocate and trainer, Professor Christensen discusses the benefits to himself and his students of adopting an open physics textbook.  The customization of the open textbook with his own teaching materials, he believes, enabled him to make physics "more fun and interesting" for his students, with some choosing to major in physics at the universities.  Also, costs to students dropped from $178.00 to $13.00.

View Professor Christensen's video on YouTube®

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License: Creative Commons, Attribution, Share-Alike

 
Janet Spencer
Janet Spencer (Click to view video)
"Janet Spencer: Open Textbook Adopter" (CC-BY-SA*) (~3 min., 10MB, wmv format)
Created by Tahiya Marome of Foothill College, Los Altos, California.  A fictional, composite community college faculty member, "Janet Spencer", for the benefit of her students, and to take advantage of the modularity provided by open textbooks, tells of her successful adoption of an open textbook for her class.  It was so successful she plans to write her own while on sabbatical.

Click the link to view: "Janet Spencer: Open Textbook Adopter"
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License: Creative Commons, Attribution, Share-Alike

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Project Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation


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