Find, Author, and Share Open Textbooks

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We have 6 weeks of curriculum but throughout the entire course, you will work in a team on the OER project that you want to accomplish. There will be one or two forum questions weekly for everyone to share their findings in and I invite any of you to create forums to discuss other OER related topics as well.   We will have a community event/meeting each week and will discuss how we want to handle that at our first get together next week when the course starts.
 
Pre-course Forum:Introduce your self and what project you want to work on in the course. Please share any ideas or experiences with open educational resources.
 
Week 1:  Welcome and Introduction:  Kick-off teams and projects
 
Forum:#1 What are your comments or concerns regarding the idea of open educational resources and textbooks?
Forum: #2  What resources do you currently use (or are considering using) that can be considered "open"?
 
Week 2:  Finding oer and open textbooks
Folkesemantic
College Open Textbooks
Repositories
 
Forum:Tell us what resources and textbooks you found and where you found them? What do you like and don't like about the resources or the repositories?
 
Week 3:  Creative Commons Licensing and Accessibility
Understanding source licenses: Copyright Case Studies
Creating your license
What do you need to know about making materials accessible?
What about mobile formats: ePub vs. PDF?
 
Forum:What is the difference between OPEN educational materials and FREE ones? Should you care?
Forum:What open license do you plan to use to  distribute your materials?  Tell us a little about your thinking.
 
Week 4:  Authoring and Hosting Platforms
Connexions
Wikipedia
Wikibooks
LeMill
CK-Flex
Curriki
iTunesU
 
Forum:Tell about the authoring platform that best suits your team’s needs and why?
 
 
Week 5:  Author/Adopter Communities and Sustainability
Creating Online Communities for developing curriculum
     Ning
     Nixty
     NetVibes
     Wikiecducator
     Wikispaces
     Blogs
  
 Forum:Tell about your familiarity with different online communities and the platforms associated with them.  Please share pros and cons.
 
Week 6:  Wrap-up Projects
Finish off projects or the current phase of the project and get ready to share with the community.  There will be opportunities to share in a webinar or through posting it to our course site at P2PU.
 
 
Forum:  Please provide constructive feedback to other teams on their projects.