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E-Textbooks: E-Textbooks True With the cost of textbooks soaring, many…
Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care: February 26, 2013

Key Takeaways Open educational resources made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT's Open Courseware initiative. In the roughly 10 years since, OERs hav…
The Cost and Quality of Online Open Textbooks: Perceptions of Community College Faculty and Students: February 4, 2013

Proponents of open educational resources (OER) claim that significant cost savings are possible when open textbooks displace traditional textbooks in the college classroom. We investigated st…
Stanford School of Medicine E-Book Pilots: January 31, 2013

To investigate the rapidly growing field o f e-books , Stanford School of Medicine piloted the development and u se of e-books in two residency programs. The project focused on the aut…
Born Digital - and Accessible: January 28, 2013

Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Larry Goldberg and Madeleine Rothberg of WGBH NCAM. The di…
Kindle Accessibility Concerns Continue: March 13, 2013

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) continues to raise concerns about the accessibility of Amazon's Kindle devices as well as its Kindle apps for other devices (e.g., the iPad) for pe…
What We're Learning from eTexts: December 10, 2012

Presentation given at the CNI fall 2012 membership meeting. Faculty, students, authors, and publishers all have a stake in the evolution of textbooks. As texts and business models are transfor…
E-Texts or Bust: Observations from the Internet2/EDUCAUSE E-Text Pilot: February 5, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting
In 2012, Internet2 and EDUCAUSE sponsored an initiative to pilot the use of e-textbooks across multiple universities. Over 25 institutions are participating in the study, with each evaluating the…
Finding Your Pathway to E-Textbook Authoring: February 5, 2013
Making and sharing e-books has never been easier. Many tools are available, and many of them are free. The ability to author an electronic document that's portable, accessible on many platfo…
E-Textbook Opportunities and Decisions: March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
Institutions are faced with many options for dealing with e-textbooks. University of Wisconsin–Madison has participated in e-textbook pilots for two semesters and has developed a set of instituti…

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