Sentences with phrase «making open textbooks»

McGuire's talk, «Small Pieces, Loosely Joined»: How Making Open Textbooks (Could Be) Like Making Public Domain Audiobooks,» will take place at 11 a.m. PST Friday, Nov. 20.

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Since Infinity War arrived, the major studios have released just two movies: Warner Bros.» Melissa McCarthy comedy Life of the Party, which made $ 18.5 million in its opening weekend, the lowest total for a McCarthy vehicle since she became a movie star; and the $ 16.5 million - earning Breaking In, a Gabrielle Union thriller from Universal and Will Packer Productions, the company that has delivered two textbook counterprograms, Girls Trip and the Ride Along films.

The week this announcement was made, Edutopia had an article on the use of open source curricular materials - a growing trend being driven, in part, by the extraordinary cost of commercial textbooks.

California schools have cracked the spine on open source, free digital textbooks in an attempt to save money and to make educational resources easier to access and update.

The growing wealth of open educational resources and the ability to organize them through content management systems makes the standard textbook look positively obsolete.

But in February 2003, the local school board made a textbook decision, a decision that made the parents coalesce and moved them to action in a way that had not happened since the school opened in 1999: The board decided to eliminate math textbooks for middle schools as a cost - cutting measure.

What makes me scared is that I open up a textbook and I see it still uses the old content architecture but it's got a new section on Common Core stuff.

Avtar's posture reminded Randeep of the trips he used to make between college and home, his own textbook open on his lap.

But as the textbook publishers rethink their current materials to meet these standards and as those companies keep the material open in order to make upgrades, this would be a perfect time for England to also update its technology education standards by insisting on digital textbooks.

CourseSmart looks not only at the price of textbooks, acknowledging that there is an inherent cost in the creation of the text by author experts over several years, but also is focused on making sure that the open source content is academically relevant and sustainable over a period of time.

Seeing that there was no point in continuing a company who couldn't offer the most widely used textbooks to its users, Flooved has now shifted its model, a complete malleable business decision made possible by the flexibility of digital publishing, into an open - access content provider and a crowdsourced book distributor.

The free and open textbook industry has made great strides in the past few years.

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Studying abroad opens minds and doors for our children, providing better job opportunities, making the connection between what is found in a textbook and how it translates into application on a local and global scale.

Several public university coalitions in states like California, Massachusetts, and Maryland are hard at work developing their own open - source textbook library, and many professors have already made the switch to open source textbooks at universities across the nation.

Open - source textbooks are free textbooks made available to all students, teachers, and members of the general public via e-book, audio format, or print edition.