College Open Textbooks

Description: 

Funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, College Open Textbooks is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for open textbooks. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that provide support to authors who open their resources.

File Formats: 

HTML, Word Doc, PDF,Video

Technical Requirements: 

Internet Browser, Open Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Quick Time Player

Coverage: 

Level-Undergraduate level, Graduate level, Lifelong

Type of Learning Materials: 

Textbooks, Lessons, Exercises, Tutorials

Language: 

English

Interactivity Type: 

Passive

Social Interaction: 

Users can read the posts and also add comments to the discussion in the OCT Blog.

Forms and Rules of Contribution: 

- To become a reviewer user should have minimum of one year of recent teaching experience, preferably at a community college.
- Users can print the resources.