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Free to Learn Guide. College Open Textbooks - College Open Textbooks. OpenContent. Curriki. Top 3 Accredited Online Schools : Find The Best Online School + Search Online Degrees, Colleges and Universities + Free Online Schools + Online K-12 Schooling + Online School Reports, Reviews, & Rankings. Open Source Textbooks. Books | Global Text Project. We maintain the chapters for all Global Text Project books in open document format with extensive use of style sheets so that we can quickly convert them into different media or formats. Global Text Project books have been internationalized and converted to a standard format using OpenOffice.

You can access individual chapters in open document format and modify them to meet your needs. We control changes to the master version of each chapter, so please report corrections and suggestion changes to the Associate Editor. There are two ways to find books, by directory or by search. Directory All books in title orderBusinessComputingEducationHealthScienceSocial Science Search * Hold down the ⌘ (Macintosh) or CONTROL key while selecting multiple categories. College Open Textbooks - College Open Textbooks. TextbookRevolution. The Assayer: Browse by Subject. Project Gutenberg - free ebooks. Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities.

Great Books Online -- Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more. Online texts. Professor Jim Herod and I have written Multivariable Calculus ,a book which we and a few others have used here at Georgia Tech for two years. We have also proposed that this be the first calculus course in the curriculum here, but that is another story.... Although it is still in print, Calculus,by Gilbert Strang is made available through MIT's OpenCourseWare electronic publishing initiative. Here is one that has also been used here at Georgia Tech. Linear Methods of Applied Mathematics, by Evans Harrell and James Herod. Yet another one produced at Georgia Tech is Linear Algebra, Infinite Dimensions, and Maple, by James Herod.

OER Commons. Rent online textbooks and eResources for half the price of printed college textbooks. Free textbooks. From WikiEducator A book shelf project. This is a starter page for the Free Textbooks group that came together during the iCommons Summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia in June 2007. The group's focus is on developing free textbooks (also by using public domain books and other other materials). We seek both to find ways to work together and also to find best practices when working apart.

We have a mailing list - please, join us! How to run a successful free textbook project? Create a knowledge base which will help educators from all over the world starting and running Free Textbook project. There are not enough consistent volunteers to write free high school text books Writing free textbooks is different from other free education initiatives, and therefore our approaches to dealing with issues may need to be different. Some projects e.g. Online contributions are not enough.

Textbooks are seriously underutilised. Existing Free Textbooks Please, add unlisted FT projects here Ideas for projects. The Online Books Page. Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare. Where Students Read Textbooks FREE | Flat World Knowledge | Flat World Knowledge. Open Source Textbooks - IAE-Pedia. Introduction We are all used to the idea of free public lending libraries.

Benjamin Franklin helped to get this idea started in the United States well over 200 years ago. Moreover, the idea of free public schools for all is well accepted. Thus, it is not too great a leap to have a vision of education and educational materials being made available free to people of all ages throughout the world. Free education could (should) be a birthright for all. Of course, we have a very long way to go in achieving such a vision. The Internet and rapidly improving telecommunications access and facilities throughout the world have brought a new dimension to the idea of universal, free education. Of course, we have to think more carefully about the meaning of "free. " In addition, it costs to access the Internet. Finally, there is the cost of the devices people use to access the Internet.

See: Straumsheim, C (11/4/2014). Quoting from this document: Developing Free Educational Materials June 28. 2010. None. O'Reilly Open Books Project. O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books--books with various forms of "open" copyright--over the years.

The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors. Perhaps a book was outdated enough to be put out of print, yet some people still needed the information it covered. Or the author or subject of a book felt strongly that it should be published under a particular open copyright. Maybe the book was written collectively by a particular community, as in the case of our Community Press books. But there's more to making Open Books available online than simply adopting an open license or giving up rights granted under copyright law.

We're happy to have partnered with two innovative nonprofits, Creative Commons and the Internet Archive, to solve the licensing and digitizing challenges involved in bringing Open Books to readers. Donate to Creative Commons and the Internet Archive: Wikibooks. Welcome | Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education. A First Course in Linear Algebra (A Free Textbook) Open-Source Textbooks Instead I am concentrating recommendations and examples within the undergraduate mathematics curriculum, so please visit the Open Math Curriculum page. If you are linking to this site, please use that page for a broad list, or link to linear.pugetsound.edu specifically for the Linear Algebra text. Thanks for your help publicizing open textbooks. This page contains some links to similar open-source textbooks. Free Textbooks Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications, by Thomas W.

Freedom Some thoughts on open-content, intellectual property, open-source software and books.The Economy of Ideas An essay on intellectual property, copyright and digital media. Sources of Open-Content Textbook Revolution Careful capsule descriptions of free textbooks in many disciplines. Licensing Open-Content Free Software Foundation GNU licenses, popular for software projects. FlexBooks.