Blogs to watch on EM

Collection of blogs and news sites discussing topics relevant to the educational materials industry.

Education News

• eCampus News (http://www.ecampusnews.com/)

  "Technology News for Today's Higher-Ed Leader"

• eSchool News (http://wwweschoolnews.com/)

  "Technology News for Today's K-20 Educator"

• Insider Higher Education (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/focus/books_and_publishing)

  "The latest coverage on books and the scholarly publishing industry"

• The Wired Campus (http://chronicle.com/blog/Wired-Campus/5/)

  Technology blog from the Chronicle of Higher Education

Innovative Educators

• iterating toward openness (David Wiley) (http://opencontent.org/blog/)

  "blog about openness, open education, and open content [...] maintained by David Wiley"

• TeachPaperless (http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/)

  "Seek social solutions to the mysteries of 21st century teaching"

• Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog (http://eduspaces.net/csessums/weblog/)

  "Learning, Teaching, and Computing."

OER Movement

• ccLearn - News (http://learn.creativecommons.org/)

  "ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons dedicated to realizing the full potential of the internet to support open learning and open educational resources."

• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Blog (http://oerconsortium.org/announcements/)

  CCCOER Announcements

• OCW Blog (http://ocwblog.org/)
  • "Blogging the OpenCourseWare [and OER] Movements"
  • Also see News - OpenCourseWare Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/news/news.html)
• OER Blogs (http://oerblogs.org/)

  Aggregator of blog posts about OER, OpenCourseWare, the Open Access Movement, and Intellectual Property

• Open Text Book (http://www.opentextbook.org/)

  "Open Text Book is a registry of textbooks (and related materials) which are open — that is free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute"

• Open Up! - The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning Blog (http://cosl.usu.edu/openup/)

  "Open Up! is a blog dedicated to promoting open education worldwide."

• OWL Institute - News (http://owli.org/news)

  "The Open World Learning Institute helps individuals, families, and communities find, create and use open educational resources."

OER Projects

• CK-12 Blog (http://about.ck12.org/blog)
• The Connexions blog (http://blog.cnx.org/)
• Curriki's Blog (http://blog.curriki.org/)
• Flat World Knowledge Blog (http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/blog)

Publishing Companies

• Atlantic Path Publishing - Textbook Authorship (http://www.atlanticpathpublishing.com/blog/blog.html)

  "Ruminations on textbook writing and development, advice for textbook authors (questions welcome), insights on author-editor and author-publisher relations, discoveries in academic self-publishing and digital textbooks, commentary on scholarly publishing and the open access movement, and musings on news and opinion about the higher education publishing industry."

• TSTC Publishing’s Book Business Blog (http://tstcpublishing.wordpress.com/)

  "A nuts & bolts view of the daily operations of a small college textbook publisher"

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