Webinars

Upcoming Webinars & Workshops Calendar

Please join us for an online webinar session to learn more about open textbook strategies.Please visit our events calendar for information regarding upcoming webinars and presentations on open textbooks.

    • Creating Open Educational Resource (OER) Content Playlists as Alternatives to Traditional Textbook Materials

    Date/Time: September 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm Eastern time.
    Presentors:     James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Distance Learning Programs and Training and John Makevich, Instructional Design Coordinator
    Topic: College of the Canyons, with the generous support of a two-year FIPSE grant, is working to provide a solution to the high cost of academic materials for students.  We are developing ways to increase access to open educational resources within our OER content repository and other repositories, create new OER content to be housed within our repository, and define a model for academic content "playlists".  These playlists are essentially a way of taking OER objects and assembling them in a sequential order with transition materials in order to emulate the flow of content in a traditional textbook.  The benefits of playlists are to not only reduce the cost of access to learning materials, but also to actively compile otherwise individual objects into a cohesive and interactive academic outline.

    In this webinar, we will describe our progress thus far in the populating of our repository and some of the victories and challenges that have arisen.  In addition, we will preview the early steps in content playlist development and indicate what work remains to be done in that area.  We will also examine some of the other ways the materials can be disseminated to students, such as campus printing solutions.

Previous Webinars & Workshops

  • OCW Consortium webcast Using Creative Commons for Educational Content

    • Date/Time: Thursday August 5 at 7am Pacific, 8am Mountain, 9am Central, 10am Eastern
    Presentor: Attorney Lila Bailey, Creative Commons Counsel
    Topic: A good primer for those interested in using Creative Commons for educational contents. Lila, Counsel for Creative Commons, will cover the basics of using Creative Commons for different situations.

  • Online Open Textbook Workshop (3 days)
    • Date/Time: July 30, 2010
    Presenter: Jacky Hood, Director of the College Open Textbooks project
    Topic: This hybrid workshop will include both scheduled live online sessions as well as assignments and discussions with freedom to perform these within 2-3 days. The workshop requires at least 9 hours throughout the month of Augusfor general participants and 13 hours for Advocate Trainers. These sessions will be archived for those who cannot attend. Stipends are available for 4 Advocate/Trainers from this workshop. Advocate/Trainers must attend all 3 weeks.

  • The Open Textbook - A Michigan open textbook workshop

    • Date/Time: June 2, 2010
    Presentor: Jacky Hood, Director of the College Open Textbooks project
    Topic: A discussion of open textbooks that are modifiable by the instructor and low in cost for students, and how open textbooks are developed and delivered.

  • University of North Texas Open Access Symposium

    • Date/Time: May 18, 2010
    Host: University of North Texas
    Topics: Diverse topics on open textbooks were offered at this symposium. Presentations from this syposium are now available. Check this site at a later date for video recordings of the sessions

  • In search of affordable textbooks: How open-access can reduce costs.

    • Date/Time: May 12, 2010 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time).
    Host: Dr. Cable Green, Director of eLearning & Open Education, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
    Topic: What open textbooks are and how much they can save; Why textbook costs are out of control; How open textbooks are created and maintained.
    Where to find open textbooks for your course; One professor's perspective on using an open textbook.
    Archived session and slides.

  • Creative Commons, OER and Open Textbooks 

    • Date/Time: May 6, 2010 at 3:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time).
    Presentors:Timothy Vollmer, CC Open Policy Fellow, and Lila Bailey, CC Counsel  
    Topic: Mr. Vollmer and Ms. Bailey will discuss: the range of CC licenses and where they are used CC’s role in addressing barriers to open resources, such as discovery, language, cultural, and technical issues; CC within open textbooks, and new CC initiatives. PPT Presentation; View archieved webinar

  • Connexions and Open Textbooks- Making textbooks customizable, deliverable to multiple formats, and encouraging adoption
    • Date/Time: Friday April 16th at 2:00 PM (Eastern daylight time)
    Presentor: Joel Thierstein, Executive Director of Rice University's Connexions Repository. PPT Presentation; View archieved recording.