CC News: British Columbia Embraces Open Textbooks
Elliot Harmon, October 23rd, 2012
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British Columbia has just announced a groundbreaking open textbook policy, providing for open textbooks for 40 popular college courses. |
It’s open access week! Join Creative Commons and dozens of other organizations as we celebrate the OA movement. |
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On October 5, Creative Commons and P2PU convened community advocates and policy leaders to lay the curriculum framework for the School of Open. |
On Ada Lovelace Day, CC CEO Cathy Casserly reflects on the importance of women in science and technology. |
In other news:
- Cost of reusing educational materials developed by grantees? $0. The US Departments of Labor and Education make a big investment in open educational resources.
- Geoscience Australia recently announced that it will license all images from the Landsat 8 satellite under CC BY. Australia’s partnership with the United States in the Landsat program is a perfect example of why it’s important to use a license that’s open and internationally applicable.
- Our friends at the Free Music Archive are holding a video remix contest. Get your entry in by November 4! And stay tuned: next month, we’ll be announcing a special music contest in celebration of CC’s tenth anniversary.
- It’s official: Wikimedia’s Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s largest photo competition.
- CC’s Tim Vollmer writes about HowOpenIsIt?, a new reference guide for understanding open access standards.
- Not only is this Open Access Week; it’s also Pro Bono Week. CC’s legal team takes a moment to say thanks.
Very interesting.
This Open Text Book initiative was quite impressive.
Im sure we are measuring the success rate of how many of students have been benefited with this, I mean keeping track of downloads through analytics.
Thanks.