Webinar: 9/14/10: OER Content Playlists as Alternatives to Traditional Textbook Materials

You are invited to an Open Access Textbook Webinar

September 14, 2010, 2:00 PM (Eastern)

sponsored by The Open Access Textbook FIPSE grant project

Join us for this one-hour session on:

"OER Content Playlists as Alternatives to Traditional Textbook Materials"

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

2:00 - 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time 

Presenters: James Glapa-Grossklag  and John Makevich, College of the Canyons 

Presenters will share details of their two-year FIPSE grant project, related to reducing the high cost of academic materials for students. Their project goals include:

•           increasing access to open educational resources (OER) within their content repository and other repositories

•           creating new OER content to be housed within their repository, and

•           defining a model for academic content "playlists".  These playlists are 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.  Playlists can not only reduce the cost of access to learning materials, but can provide a way to actively compile otherwise individual objects into a cohesive and interactive academic outline.

Presenters will:

•           Discuss their progress thus far in populating their repository and some of the victories and challenges that have arisen. 

•           Preview the early steps in content playlist development and indicate what work remains to be done in that area. 

•           Examine some of the other ways the materials can be disseminated to students, such as campus printing solutions.

Join us for this session by following this link:  http://vclass.distancelearn.org:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1255635328526

No pre-registration is needed to participate in the webinar.

Learn more about the FIPSE Open Access Textbook Project at: http://openaccesstextbooks.org