Open Learning Through Open Textbooks

Concurrent: Ken Ronkowitz
Open Learning Through Open Textbooks
An NJEDge.Net Sponsored Session

Open Textbooks combine eTextbooks and Open Educational  Resources and are helping to drive  a growing number of emerging high school and higher education models.  Open Textbooks are free, or very nearly free, electronic textbooks that are also editable so instructors can customize content. They are cross-platform compatible, printable, and accessible so they work with adaptive technology. This session will look at the opportunities to find, adopt and even author open textbooks.

Ken Ronkowitz

Ken Ronkowitz is the Director of the Writing Initiative http://pccc.libguides.com/writing at Passaic County Community College http://www.pccc.edu and teaches in the Humanities. Prior to PCCC, he was the Manager of Instructional Technology at NJIT, and continues there as an adjunct instructor in the graduate program in Professional Technical Communication http://msptc.njit.edu.  At NJIT, he brought the  university into Apple’s iTunes U at its launch, led the transition to enterprise use of Moodle, and initiated NJIT’s technology presence in Newark’s high schools. Ken began his career teaching and facilitating technology integration in secondary education. His learning and technology blog, Serendipity35, is athttp://www.serendipity35.net