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Google To Launch Play Textbooks In August, Partners With 5 Major Publishing...
At its Android and Chrome event in San Francisco today, Google announced that it is bringing textbooks to the Google Play store so students will be able to purchase and rent their textbooks for their...
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CT > The Price is Right: 11 Excellent Sites for Free Digital Textbooks
If you're committed to shifting your curriculum to e-textbooks, consider trying free first. Here are the best sites for digital books that won't cost your students a dime.By Dian Schaffhauser |...
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Flooved: Open Educational Resources Platform
[snip][http://www.flooved.com/]How it works: Along the lines of the Open Access movement, we source our content directly from leading lecturers (currently focusing on Maths and Physics), who share our...
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Creative Commons U.S.A. Applauds the Introduction of the Affordable College...
Senators Dick Durbin and Al Franken today introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act, which directs the Secretary of Education to fund the creation of college textbooks and materials to be made...
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NC State > Interest in e-Textbooks Rises, Library Explores Possible Uses
Jess Thomas, Correspondent Digital textbooks, or e-books, could become popular in classrooms at N.C. State. Currently, students may choose between buying an e-book or the hard copy version of a...
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The Changing Textbook Industry
[snip]Probably even more transformational is the Open Educational Resources (OERs) approach. OERs are released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing. OERs include open...
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Open Textbook Publishing > Academe > September - October 2013
Who is best suited to control textbooks: the faculty or the publishers? There are ways to make sure it is the faculty / Joe MoxleyThanks to inexpensive or free publishing tools and the ubiquitous...
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Free Webinar > Open Textbook Publishing and Adoptions > February 5 2014 >...
January 27, 2014Recent research conducted by the OER Research Hub indicates that nearly 60% of community college faculty choose OER and open textbooks based on the reputation of the institution or...
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Open Textbooks Could Help Students Financially and Academically
As the price of college textbooks continues to increase, more students are opting to skip the books even if their grades suffer, a survey conducted by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group has found....
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Open Source Textbooks: A Paradigm Derived from Open Source Software
AbstractThis work exposes a new paradigm for the creation and publication of textbooks: open source. The phrase open source is borrowed from the computer software industry, where the word source has a...
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Open Textbooks for Hong Kong Project
Commencing in January 2013, our project aims to establish a sustainable system which provides free open textbooks at various levels and areas of study for adoption and adaptation. We believe that...
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IAE-PEDIA > Open Source Textbooks
Contents 1 Introduction2 Developing Free Educational Materials3 Clearly, An International Movement4 Publishing Textbook Types of Materials5 Free, But Not Open Source6 Free Books and Journals7...
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ticEDUCA 2012: Digital Textbooks Platforms: Trends and Technologies
Analyzing the user experience of digital textbooks and platforms requires some contextual and background research. This was done by analyzing 14 of the most prominent platforms and auxiliary...
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The Future of Digital Textbooks
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PDX Open: Reducing Student Textbook Costs
About PDX OpenWould you like your students to have access to textbooks completely customized to your course and pedagogical design?Would you like to lower the cost of textbooks for your students?The...
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NISO Two-Part Webinar: E-books for Education Part 2: Open Textbook...
About the WebinarJust as open access has revolutionized the world of journal literature, so too is it Increasingly being advocated in the e-textbook world. Part 2 of E-books for Education will focus on...
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JISC > Call for Participation: Institution as e-Textbook Publisher
February 28 2014We are today releasing a new call inviting UK higher education institutions (HEIs) and further education colleges (FECs) to participate in a three year national project to explore the...
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Ithaka S+R > Opening The Textbook: New Opportunities for Libraries and...
In our latest issue brief, Nancy Maron, Ithaka S+R program director for Sustainability and Scholarly Communications, explores how these new models might develop, and proposes that there may be a role...
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GERRY MCKIERNAN Associate ProfessorScience and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Ames IA 50011 (515) 294-9886 (W)A. CANDIDATE INFORMATIONEducationPratt Institute, Graduate School of...
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GERRY MCKIERNAN Associate ProfessorScience and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Ames IA 50011 (515) 294-9886 (W)A. CANDIDATE INFORMATIONEducationPratt Institute, Graduate School of...
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