https://bchen.net/tags/oer/ Recent content in Oer on Bodong Chen Hugo en Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://bchen.net/blog/2018-04-24-open-textbooks/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://bchen.net/blog/2018-04-24-open-textbooks/ <p>I was included in <a href="http://www.mndaily.com/article/2018/04/n-university-of-minnesota-professors-use-their-free-time-to-write-free-textbooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an <em>MN Daily</em> story about open textbooks</a> last week. It was actually a bit embarrassing as I thought a few other colleagues would ‘co-star’ with me in this story because there are <a href="http://research.cehd.umn.edu/otn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exciting work on open textbooks</a> and <a href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/elearning/partnership/showcase" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affordable content</a> going on at UMN.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">University of Minnesota professors use their free time to write free textbooks: <a href="https://t.co/iCgMCxC3qf">https://t.co/iCgMCxC3qf</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mndailynews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mndailynews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/bod0ng?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bod0ng</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dernst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dernst</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UMNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UMNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UMNproud?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UMNproud</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CEHD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CEHD</a> Learn more: <a href="https://t.co/eydHtKE8Em">https://t.co/eydHtKE8Em</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/open_textbooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@open_textbooks</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/oer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#oer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LTMediaLab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LTMediaLab</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UMN_CI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UMN_CI</a> <a href="https://t.co/zweg5n1FB5">pic.twitter.com/zweg5n1FB5</a></p>&mdash; U of Minnesota CEHD (@UMN_CEHD) <a href="https://twitter.com/UMN_CEHD/status/986960692468178944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>In this blog post, I’d like to share some personal thoughts that were not included in the news story.</p>