{"id":608,"date":"2013-04-18T03:15:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=608"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T15:18:45","slug":"open-college-books-in-nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2013\/04\/18\/open-college-books-in-nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Open college books in ND?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Dakota legislature now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/openstates.org\/nd\/bills\/63\/HCR3009\/documents\/NDD00006411\/\">resolution urging college profs<\/a> to make use of open textbooks. The concern seems to be that students pay an average of $1000 a year in textbook costs (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/01\/09\/beer-money-ploy\/\">beer money ploy<\/a> &#8211; trust me it makes more sense than you might think).<\/p>\n<p>The following is a YouTube video of the discussion. I had no idea YouTube had such content. What I am trying to determine is whether I agree with the definition of &#8220;open&#8221; textbook that is being used. I am trying to decide if they are confusing ebooks and &#8220;open&#8221; digital books. If the assumption is that an ebook is sold by textbook companies at a greatly reduced price, this is not actually the case. I checked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Psychology-Themes-Variations-Briefer-Version\/dp\/1133939066\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1366254098&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=weiten+9\">Intro Psych book I will use in the Fall<\/a> &#8211; the difference between the digital and the paperback version is less than \u00a0$20.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_95694\"  width=\"640\" height=\"480\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C6KRwq-6StE?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nMy interpretation of open would look more like <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/09\/california-universities-to-produce-50-open-source-textbooks\/\">the California model<\/a>. However, California contributed funds to generate this content.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0he [Gov. Brown] also signed off on a proposal for the state to fund 50 open source digital textbooks. He signed two bills, one to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leginfo.ca.gov\/pub\/11-12\/bill\/sen\/sb_1051-1100\/sb_1052_bill_20120905_enrolled.html\">create the textbooks<\/a>\u00a0and the other to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leginfo.ca.gov\/pub\/11-12\/bill\/sen\/sb_1051-1100\/sb_1053_bill_20120905_enrolled.html\">establish<\/a>\u00a0a California Digital Open Source Library to host them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps the North Dakota model is to borrow from California. This is evidently what the politicians mean when they promote the &#8220;North Dakota Way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Dakota legislature now has a resolution urging college profs to make use of open textbooks. The concern seems to be that students pay an average of $1000 a year in textbook costs (see beer money ploy &#8211; trust &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2013\/04\/18\/open-college-books-in-nd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}