Passed on to us by its creator, John Wetzel, the WikiPremed MCAT course is a “donationware” site (open access but does ask for a donation if you find yourself replying on it heavily) to help students prepare for the MCAT test.

Helpful post by Michael Paskevicius that lists a number of specialized image search engines that will help you find free and openly licensed images for use in your teachind and learning

In a wonderful demonstration of ‘walking the talk,’ Dr. Charles Severance of the University of Michigan remixed an existing open textbook, <a href=”http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html”>Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist</a>, in only 11 days to produce a new textbook for his class, ones students could print out for $10 using a local print-on-demand kiosk on campus.

Those interested in starting an OER project on their own campus may be interested in the new OER Toolkit developed on behalf of UNESCO to be a startup guide for participating in the international open education commons. Lots of good tips and information for the OER change agent here.

Cable Green, eLearning Director for Washington State’s Community College System, points to this useful summary of current Open Textbook initiatives in the US, a movement that is steadily gaining traction as textbooks increase in price and cost becomes an even bigger challenge to prospective students.

(see also Cable’s link to a recent survey on “Faculty Attitudes to Affordable and Open Textbooks.”)

Doug Holton, an instructor in the Instructional Tech and Learning department at Utah State Uinversity, has compiled a useful post pointing to freely available books concerning Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education. These aren’t *textbooks* but instead free resources pointing to the future of education in these areas.