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Five steps to adopting an Open Textbook for a course.
Open textbook adoption
Quick start
Step 1: find an open textbook
Search for an open textbook from the following sources:
- MERLOT
- Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
- Global Text Project
- OER Commons
- Orange Grove
- Connexions
- USG Share (click on on word - guest)
- Textbook Revolution
- The Assayer
- MERLOT
- Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
- Wikibooks
- Audio Books
- CK12 Flexbooks
- Flat World Knowledge
- Public Literature
- Questia
Step 2: review and select an open textbook
As you search for open textbooks in repositories, consider what criteria you will use to select appropriate an open textbook for your own use. You can develop your own criteria or consider adapting existing criteria from other sources.
- Take a look at the criteria available from MERLOT's Peer Review process.
- Consider using or adapting the Evaluation Criteria Checklist used for content in USG Share.
- The Curriki Review System allows content-area experts and teachers to review and rate resources in the Curriki repository.
- A video is available which explains the process.
- See Assessing the quality of open education resource based wikis.
- Watch this video lecture about educational quality assessment.
Make your selection based on criteria such as:
- Quality of content, literary merit and format
- Accuracy
- Timeliness
- Favorable reviews
- Permanence/lasting value
- Authority of author
- Scope and depth
- Physical quality
- Formats available: print, CD-ROM, online, etc.
- Reading level and writing style
- Accessibility
- Language(s)
- Copyright restrictions on modification and reuse
- Cultural relevance
Cultural factors include race, ethnicity, language, nationality, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, income level, and occupation. Ensure that information is relevant to the intended students' social and cultural contexts.
Also, check for ratings, reviews or endorsements of open textbooks and OER by professional societies and organizations. For example, some professional organizations use an endorsement Lens at Connexions to indicate that content meets their minimum standards.
Step 3: customize your selection as desired
Few existing open textbooks will meet all your instructional needs so you may want to customize the open textbook you have selected.
Consider the following ways you may want to modify the open textbook to make it more appropriate for your teaching style:Combine two or more open textbooks and OER.
Rearrange the content in the open textbook.Add a glossary, hyperlinks, and test bank.
Make edits to improve accuracy and currency.Make the content usable by students with visual impairment.
The BookBuilder tool at CAST is just one of several tools that can be used to create your own customized version of the open textbook. Another tool is available from BongoBooks.If the open textbook you selected is in the Connexions repository, you can make your own copy of the open textbook then make your own modifications as a 'derivative work.'
CK12 and Flat World Knowledge allow for development of modified versions of open textbooks.
Questions & Answers
how does Neisseria cause meningitis
is the branch of biology that deals with the study of microorganisms.
studies of microbes
Louisiaste
when we takee the specimen which lumbar,spin,
How bacteria create energy to survive?
Bacteria doesn't produce energy they are dependent upon their substrate in case of lack of nutrients they are able to make spores which helps them to sustain in harsh environments
_Adnan
But not all bacteria make spores, l mean Eukaryotic cells have Mitochondria which acts as powerhouse for them, since bacteria don't have it, what is the substitution for it?
Muhamad
they make spores
Louisiaste
what is sporadic nd endemic, epidemic
the significance of food webs for disease transmission
Abreham
food webs brings about an infection as an individual depends on number of diseased foods or carriers dully.
Mark
explain assimilatory nitrate reduction
Assimilatory nitrate reduction is a process that occurs in some microorganisms, such as bacteria and archaea, in which nitrate (NO3-) is reduced to nitrite (NO2-), and then further reduced to ammonia (NH3).
Elkana
This process is called assimilatory nitrate reduction because the nitrogen that is produced is incorporated in the cells of microorganisms where it can be used in the synthesis of amino acids and other nitrogen products
Elkana
Examples of thermophilic organisms
Give Examples of thermophilic organisms
Shu
advantages of normal Flora to the host
Prevent foreign microbes to the host
Abubakar
they provide healthier benefits to their hosts
ayesha
They are friends to host only when Host immune system is strong and become enemies when the host immune system is weakened . very bad relationship!
Mark
cell is the smallest unit of life
Fauziya
cell is the smallest unit of life
Akanni
cell is the structural and functional unit of life
Hasan
is the fundamental units of Life
Musa
what are emergency diseases
There are nothing like emergency disease but there are some common medical emergency which can occur simultaneously like Bleeding,heart attack,Breathing difficulties,severe pain heart stock.Hope you will get my point .Have a nice day ❣️
_Adnan
define infection ,prevention and control
Innocent
I think infection prevention and control is the avoidance of all things we do that gives out break of infections and promotion of health practices that promote life
Lubega
Heyy Lubega hussein where are u from?
_Adnan
which site have a normal flora
Many sites of the body have it
Skin
Nasal cavity
Oral cavity
Gastro intestinal tract
Safaa
skin,Oral,Nasal,GIt
Sadik
How can Commensal can Bacteria change into pathogen?
Sadik
How can Commensal Bacteria change into pathogen?
Sadik
what are the advantages of normal Flora to the host
Micheal
what are the ways of control and prevention of nosocomial infection in the hospital
Micheal
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OpenStax, Ideas and tools for improving connexions modules and collections. OpenStax CNX. Mar 22, 2010 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11184/1.2
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