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CreativeCommons.org: “Phase 2 Results of the CA Free Digital Textbook Initiative”…

Last Friday, Governor Schwarzenegger announced the results from Phase 2 of the California Free Digital Textbook Initiative. A total of 17 textbooks, including updated versions from Phase 1, were submitted, and 15 have so far been reviewed against California’s academic content standards. Of those fifteen, ten carry a CC license (CC BY-SA or CC BY), two carry a GNU FDL license, and one is in the public domain. All but two of the CC licensed textbooks met 100% of California’s state standards. Major contributors included a number of individuals, in addition to the CK-12 Foundation and Connexions, two OER organizations that have a default CC license (CC BY-SA and CC BY, respectively) on their educational resources.

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See also: Governor’s Press Release

http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/webinars.html

Please join us for an online webinar session to learn more about open textbook strategies. This session will be conducted via Elluminate and all are welcome to attend.

Creative Commons, OER and Open Textbooks

Date/Time: May 6, 2010 at 3:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time).
Presentors: Timothy Vollmer, CC Open Policy Fellow, and Lila Bailey, CC Counsel
Topic: Mr. Vollmer and Ms. Bailey will discuss:

• the range of CC licenses and where they are used CC’s role in addressing barriers to open resources, such as discovery, language, cultural, and technical issues
• CC within open textbooks
• New CC initiatives

No registration needed. Participate in the webinar: http://vclass.distancelearn.org/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1255635327586

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