Orange Grove Upgrade

The Orange Grove Repository has a new look, and the change is more than skin deep. The new Orange Grove has a customizable Dashboard, new search capabilities, resource harvesting, and mobile access. The Orange Grove now puts over 40,000 high quality education resources from around the world at your fingertips. In addition to ERIC, MeSH, GEM, and Florida Statewide Course Numbers, the contributors to the repository now have the ability to tag resources using the National Common Core Standards. Check out the new Orange Grove.

The Open Textbook Challenge

Saylor Foundation's Open Textbook Challenge will offer you a $20,000 award if you submit your textbook, to which you have the rights, and it is accepted for use in their course materials. Visit Saylor.org for details and a list of eligible courses, or...

NUTN Award

OGT+ won a 2011 NUTN Distance Education Innovation Award from the National University Technology Network (NUTN). Orange Grove Textbooks Plus is a partnership between the Florida Distance Learning Consortium, University Press of Florida, and WebAssign. The nomination for the award called for answers to seven specific questions. Access the OGT+ nomination, which describes the OGT+ innovation with answers to these questions.

Social Networks

• The Orange Grove Repository Facebook Page
• The Orange Grove Repository Twitter Feed
• Charlie Mitchell's Blog: An Open Source Theatre Textbook
• Cable Green's Blog: Open Educational Resources: Changes--Next Exit
• College Open Textbooks Blog

Reports

Handheld E-Book Readers and Scholarship: Report and Reader Survey

Florida Colleges and Universities Are Addressing Textbook Affordability

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Articles

Do Podcasts Help Students Learn?

Open source textbooks hit key point in the S curve

Affordable and Open Textbooks:
An Exploratory Study of Faculty Attitudes

Open Licensing Policy

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Webinars

Open Textbooks: The College Student Speaks Out - View the archive with Nicole Allen, the national Textbook Advocate for the Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs), and college students from around the nation as they discuss their initiatives to make textbooks affordable through the use of high-quality open textbooks and other cost-saving solutions.

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