At a time when commercial textbook prices are soaring and a fundamental shift in the way we access and create information has occurred, why not consider authoring an open textbook? Open licensing means that you can freely incorporate open resources into a textbook that meets the needs of your students and makes you a "standout" in the faculty pool.

In this session learn how to find high-quality open educational resources and adapt them for re-use. Explore different authoring and hosting platforms such as Connexions, Wikibooks, and iTunesU while making sure that students with learning disabilities and mobile devices can fully access materials. Understand the open-license model which retains credit for the author but allows re-use by others.

Sponsored by the Community College Open Textbook Collaborative an online participatory community of faculty, staff, and students sharing best practices around open educational resources.

Una Daly, Associate Director, College Open Textbooks, Foothill College, Los Altos, CA