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Curriki's Christine Mytko: Open Education and Policy

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Photo by Christine Mytko / CC BY-NC At the beginning of this year we announced a revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to do so we have worked hard to increase the amount of information available on our own site – in…

Phase 2 Results of the CA Free Digital Textbook Initiative

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Last Friday, Governor Schwarzenegger announced the results from Phase 2 of the California Free Digital Textbook Initiative. A total of 17 textbooks, including updated versions from Phase 1, were submitted, and 15 have so far been reviewed against California’s academic content standards. Of those fifteen, ten carry a CC license (CC BY-SA or CC BY),…

ccSalon SF (5/3/10): The power of open education

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If you’re in the SF Bay Area, we hope to see you at our next Creative Commons Salon on the power of open education, featuring: Brian Bridges, Director of the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) Murugan Pal, co-Founder and President of CK-12 Foundation Carolina Rossini, Berkman Fellow, Advocate for OER in Brazil, and Peer2Peer University…

CA Free Digital Textbook Initiative Launches Phase 2

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Many of you have heard about California’s Free Digital Textbook Initiative that launched last spring, which called for submissions of free digital textbooks in math and science for use by the state’s schools. Of the 16 textbooks submitted last year, 15 are openly licensed under one of the Creative Commons licenses—and all 10 that passed…

U.S. Dept of Ed funds Bookshare to make open textbooks accessible

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Remember the California Free Digital Textbooks Initiative and how it resulted in 16 open textbooks, 10 of which met 90% of California’s standards? Well, since these textbooks were licensed under one of the Creative Commons licenses that allows derivation (the licenses sans the ND term), they can not only be translated into various languages, but…

Back to School: It's Raining Textbooks

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As students around the world return to school, ccLearn blogs about the evolving education landscape, ongoing projects to improve educational resources, education technology, and the future of education. Browse the “Back to School” tag for more posts in this series. All that matters in the news these days is health care, that is, health care…