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Open University. A massive repository of all books needed for any career. No teachers, no videos, no homework, nothing, just the books, free, forever.

karangoeluw 13y ago
http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.gutenberg.org/?
- Eleutheria 13y ago
  Nop. Not a single Law School, Medicine, Computer Science, Civil engineer book in that listing. It should be organized like an university with all the programs by semester and their respective books. Btw, I don't care about diplomas, I care about knowledge.
justplay 13y ago
something like wikipedia? 1. where quality doesn't compromised, 2. company runs by donation and 3. keep growing with volunteer support. That sounds like excellent idea. I don't have too much time but i would love to be part of something like this.
terminus 13y ago
Try saylor.org.
alex8022 13y ago
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page I'm not sure what the quality of the books are overall, or the consistency between books, but I've had some luck with introductory level info. It looks like a good start and seems to be the same basic concept as what you describe.
guru1206 13y ago
http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/ http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/
parkovski 13y ago
I'm working on this - obviously there are licensing issues with books, but my idea is to have students keep notes online, and then have those documents available to everyone. I'd love to hear any more ideas you have about this.
Jonovono 13y ago
Yes! Thought of this as well. To add what I would love to see is: So starting out with this comic: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ I think a open education platform where it kind of plots out the things like in comic. So you could navigate around this circle and see where your knowledge is at for certain subjects (closer to edge of the circle is getting to phd knowledge). What you could also do is show interconnected things. Say you are trying to learn some math subjects but you know very advanced music theory (or whatever). Knowing how to explain certain topics to someone that has other knowledge, or even showing other topics and how they make use of the math/whatever subjects you are studying. I started on something like this, basically just going through a bunch of schools curriculum and putting it together with classes / books I could find. But I would love to explore this further. Feel free to message me: jordan@howlett.io

karangoeluw 13y ago

http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.gutenberg.org/?

Eleutheria 13y ago
Nop. Not a single Law School, Medicine, Computer Science, Civil engineer book in that listing. It should be organized like an university with all the programs by semester and their respective books. Btw, I don't care about diplomas, I care about knowledge.

justplay 13y ago

something like wikipedia? 1. where quality doesn't compromised, 2. company runs by donation and 3. keep growing with volunteer support. That sounds like excellent idea. I don't have too much time but i would love to be part of something like this.

terminus 13y ago

Try saylor.org.

alex8022 13y ago

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page I'm not sure what the quality of the books are overall, or the consistency between books, but I've had some luck with introductory level info. It looks like a good start and seems to be the same basic concept as what you describe.

guru1206 13y ago

http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/ http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/

parkovski 13y ago

I'm working on this - obviously there are licensing issues with books, but my idea is to have students keep notes online, and then have those documents available to everyone. I'd love to hear any more ideas you have about this.

Jonovono 13y ago

Yes! Thought of this as well. To add what I would love to see is: So starting out with this comic: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ I think a open education platform where it kind of plots out the things like in comic. So you could navigate around this circle and see where your knowledge is at for certain subjects (closer to edge of the circle is getting to phd knowledge). What you could also do is show interconnected things. Say you are trying to learn some math subjects but you know very advanced music theory (or whatever). Knowing how to explain certain topics to someone that has other knowledge, or even showing other topics and how they make use of the math/whatever subjects you are studying. I started on something like this, basically just going through a bunch of schools curriculum and putting it together with classes / books I could find. But I would love to explore this further. Feel free to message me: jordan@howlett.io