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Webinar this thurs on open-source
I don't know if you've gotten Cable Green's invite about open-source webinar, but here it is:
Title: Textbook Affordability: A Discussion About Skyrocketing Costs and Emerging Solutions
Time/Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Webinar link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.0DEEEB8B6C0EAFD7993367D2D9948A
Textbook prices have risen more than twice the rate of inflation for the past 25 years, and now cost the average student $900 per year. Publishers continue to exacerbate the problem by pumping out new editions every few years and packaging books with costly extras like CDs and pass codes. Students, instructors, colleges and parents share frustration with the high cost of textbooks, but what can be done?
This webinar will present information about a forthcoming solution to the textbook affordability crisis: open textbooks. These books are similar to traditional texts, except that they are offered free online and sold for lower prices in print. If open textbooks gain traction in the marketplace, they could drive textbook costs down for good.
Come learn from these speakers, who provide a variety of perspectives on textbook affordability and open textbooks as a solution:
• Nicole Allen, a consumer advocate from the Student Public Interest Research Groups and director of Make Textbooks Affordable.
• Levi Menovske, a junior at UC-Davis and leader of the student open textbooks campaign in California.
• Eric Frank, co-founder of an open textbook publishing company and veteran of the traditional publishing industry.
• Joining this group will be a professor and a student to share their experiences with using an open textbook in a college course.
• Introduction by Dr. Cable Green from the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
Dr. Green is enthusiastically pushing open-source texts to our presidents, deans, legislature. With California's directive, he'll be only more vocal as time goes on. I hope anyone on this forum is keeping a toe in the water...it will affect all of us
I think it will be lively and fun to see this issue from faculty perspective. And, politically, do you think they are trying to get this done for the community and tech colleges before they approach "the Universities" for a reason? Just curious as to your opinion. Mine is the traditional textbook is in a coma heading for death. We need to manage the transition for ourselves, our students, and our colleges in a SMART manner...no jumping in then saying "oops" (anyone remember the EWorks fiasco?)
Hope you guys are at all the events you can re the trends in "educational information delivery"....cause you are shaping the future now.
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Title: Textbook Affordability: A Discussion About Skyrocketing Costs and Emerging Solutions
Time/Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Webinar link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.0DEEEB8B6C0EAFD7993367D2D9948A
Textbook prices have risen more than twice the rate of inflation for the past 25 years, and now cost the average student $900 per year. Publishers continue to exacerbate the problem by pumping out new editions every few years and packaging books with costly extras like CDs and pass codes. Students, instructors, colleges and parents share frustration with the high cost of textbooks, but what can be done?
This webinar will present information about a forthcoming solution to the textbook affordability crisis: open textbooks. These books are similar to traditional texts, except that they are offered free online and sold for lower prices in print. If open textbooks gain traction in the marketplace, they could drive textbook costs down for good.
Come learn from these speakers, who provide a variety of perspectives on textbook affordability and open textbooks as a solution:
• Nicole Allen, a consumer advocate from the Student Public Interest Research Groups and director of Make Textbooks Affordable.
• Levi Menovske, a junior at UC-Davis and leader of the student open textbooks campaign in California.
• Eric Frank, co-founder of an open textbook publishing company and veteran of the traditional publishing industry.
• Joining this group will be a professor and a student to share their experiences with using an open textbook in a college course.
• Introduction by Dr. Cable Green from the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
Dr. Green is enthusiastically pushing open-source texts to our presidents, deans, legislature. With California's directive, he'll be only more vocal as time goes on. I hope anyone on this forum is keeping a toe in the water...it will affect all of us
I think it will be lively and fun to see this issue from faculty perspective. And, politically, do you think they are trying to get this done for the community and tech colleges before they approach "the Universities" for a reason? Just curious as to your opinion. Mine is the traditional textbook is in a coma heading for death. We need to manage the transition for ourselves, our students, and our colleges in a SMART manner...no jumping in then saying "oops" (anyone remember the EWorks fiasco?)
Hope you guys are at all the events you can re the trends in "educational information delivery"....cause you are shaping the future now.
*-)
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