Open Learning

Open Course Library Releases First 41 Open Textbooks

Free Learning - 2 November 2011 - 6:21pm

http://www.opencourselibrary.org/phase-1-courses.

The Open Course Library, run out of the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, announced the release of 41 full online courses as part of Phase 1 of the project. These courses are a collection of expertly developed educational materials for high enrolled college courses. The materials — including textbooks, syllabi, activities, readings, assessments — are freely available online under an open license for use by anyone worldwide. The project is set to expand to 81 courses by 2013.

[N.B. I have compiled a spreadsheet of all 41 courses with direct links to the IMS Common Cartridge Exports at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah68UXI2Wb8-dFZmODc1cV95Vm5IWHNwUU9zY05SdHc These should be directly importable into D2L & Blackboard. Moodle's IMS CC import is not fully functional yet, but when it is, these should be easily importable there too. - SWL]

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