Blogs to watch on EM

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

Education News

Innovative Educators

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."
  • OCW Blog (http://ocwblog.org/)
  • 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

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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