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Yeah there are hundreds of examples of open textbooks for both the K-12 and college levels. It's nice to see a few school districts (and colleges - like Wester
by edtechdev 15y ago
Yeah there are hundreds of examples of open textbooks for both the K-12 and college levels. It's nice to see a few school districts (and colleges - like Western Governors) officially adopting them and replacing the old books. However, again, thousands of instructors are already doing so individually ('edupunks' :)
Here are some open textbook sites:
http://collegeopentextbooks.org/ http://collegeopentextbooks.org/
http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks
http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/ http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/
http://www.lightandmatter.com/books.html http://www.lightandmatter.com/books.html
Related are the many wiki-based books & notes created in or for courses. For example:
http://anatowiki.wetpaint.com/ http://anatowiki.wetpaint.com/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FHSST_Physics http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FHSST_Physics
- tsellon 15y agoHere's a curated list of open texts for mathematics: http://linear.ups.edu/curriculum.html http://linear.ups.edu/curriculum.html
- DanBC 15y agoIs there a process of iterative refinement for any of these books? Perhaps a useful idea would be some kind of version control system; allowing people to fix errors, trim needless fluff, and improve examples. This could be funded by schools and by philanthropic grants.