[LINK] Free Open eBooks for Education from Hong Kong

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from the Second International Conference on Open and Flexible 
Education (ICOFE 2015), at the Open University of Hong Kong OUUK), 
Kowloon. GIn their welcome, Professor Danny S N Wong, VP Academic at 
OUUK pointed out that as long ago as 2000 university was using PDAs for 
assessment in nursing courses. He pointed out, for the benefit of the 
younger delegates, that PDAs "Personal Digital Assistants" were 
predecessors of smart phones of today. ;-)

In the conference workshop "Implementing effective e-Learning in Hong 
Kong schools through the adoption of Open Textbooks", Dr K S Yuen, the 
Director of Educational Technology and Publishing at OUKH, gave us a 
hands-on demonstration of their Open Textbooks Project. This has been 
focused on school books, but they might expand into tertiary books: 
http://www.opentextbooks.org.hk/about_open_textbooks

ps: More from the conference in my blog: 
http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2015/07/mobile-open-university-education-in.html


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