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
- 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."
- 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 â 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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