[Asis-l] Podcast > Open Source Comes to Textbooks

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

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Colleagues/

IMHO > Well worth The Listen (and Read).

/Gerry 

College professors are ready to reinvent the textbook. The new price: $0

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One of the most serious efforts is a project called OpenStax College based out of Rice University. Later this month, it will release two textbooks: College Physics and Introduction to Sociology. The textbooks will run on an “open education platform” called Connexions spelled with an x—that already draws a million visitors a month. OpenStax College may well give the standard texts in those two fields a real run for their money.

Richard Baraniuk is the founder and director of the Connexions platform. He is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. He joins us from Houston, Texas.

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Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
and
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University 
152 Parks Library 
Ames IA 50011

http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/