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Hi Josh,

I haven’t had that experience to the best of my knowledge. But I do delete solicitous-looking email without reading them. It’s worth investigating. I’ll see what I can find out. It would be a shame if OpenStax sells their contacts to commercial vendors.

Are you on the CCCOER list? It’s a community college OER listserv and I imagine…[Read more]

Okay. I tried to edit the paper but found I was unable to for some reason. I added a comment instead.

I made a paper where we can track some of this here: https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/papers/open-textbooks-at-laguardia-2/

I’m not sure it’s kept anywhere centrally, but I agree that it would be helpful information to have!

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for attending the first meeting of our LAGCC OER Working Group. So many great ideas and exciting projects! The following are some brief notes from our discussion and a few resources based on the conversation.

Math, Engineering, and Computer Science (MEC): Jeanne Funk and Tao Chen
Math piloted a handful of open…[Read more]

Great point, Steve! The inter relatedness of factors like broadband access, OER, publishers, public policy, etc. is ignored by Downes and Wiley in order to perpetuate their argument. After the first couple posts I got tired of their debate. They have some fundamental differences that they’ll never agree on. However, their visions for OER aren’t…[Read more]

It’s interesting that Wiley and Downes spent a month discussing the cost of content, without really getting into the price of the delivery of content. The repeal of Net Neutrality could have OER implications if a big publisher is bought by an ISP. OER content could be fairly easily throttled for users at home (ignoring, as it often is, that…[Read more]