Community College Open Textbook Project

Discover high quality, free, and open textbooks at the newly launched Community College Open Textbook Project website. The Project is a one-year feasibility study generously funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to examine sustainable approaches to promoting use and development of high quality, open textbooks.

The Open Forum for Higher Education Executives

FYI: this conference looks pretty good.

Educause "Openness" Constituent Group

EDUCAUSE (www.educause.edu), a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology, has announced the formation of a new Constituent Group (CG) on "Openness" (www.educause.edu/groups/openness)

From critical IT services to educational content, distributed models based on openness are challenging higher education's traditional approaches. The Openness Constituent Group focuses on the emergence and adoption of open technologies, practices, policies, and initiatives, and how they affect the delivery and support of education. Topics include but are not limited to free and open source software, open content, open educational resources, open courseware, open standards, and management practices such as agile methods, open business and Enterprise 2.0.

EDUCAUSE and the Openness CG invites you to join the discussion at www.educause.edu/groups/openness