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free / open source books
and materials
who
everybody
what
discussion about alternatives
what is a textbook
new resources
web 2.0
canonical sources
iana.org
what is open source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_c
ommons
low cost textbooks
why
excessive costs
churning versions
“Learning by Doing” Matt Bashamm
where
world wide
ietf.org
Belden
Black Box
now
three years running
minimal effort
consortiums
public domain - Hanon
Iana.org
ACM
Wikipedia (links)
issues
printing
large Print
licences
quality
assessments
marketing / advertising
next
wiki - blog - twitter
pbwiki site
shared info
group brain / listserv
instructor - student pages
music:
‘Ears and Eyes’ by Benjamin Crowell
Eyes and Ears: An Anthology of
Melodies for Sight-Singing
the LaTeX source is also available.
http://www.opentextbook.org/category/
music/
issues
advertising
free CCNA book has college ads
every couple of pages
economics
“Introduction to Economic Analysis”
R. Preston McAfee
http://www.introecon.com
Rice University
Open Textbook Project
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2
008/08/12/connexions
the Hewlett Foundation
MIT
Open Courseware
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Utah State University
OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.usu.edu/
http://www.cmu.edu/oli/
Open Learning Initiative
http://www.cmu.edu/oli/
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org/
Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health
OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
Tufts University OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.tufts.edu/
google
bundles
Paul
scholar
Computer Forensics
book
- 2 years old
canonical resource
- “best evidence”
p2pu.org
http://oerconsortium.org/
http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/jgon
der/opensourcebooks/
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