Sentences with phrase «open content textbooks»

Wikibooks is a collection of open content textbooks, manuals, and other texts, with supporting book - based texts that are being collaboratively written.

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The open - source dream got a new boost in May, when Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, responding to his state's budget crisis, asked content developers to submit their «open - source digital textbooks» to California Learning Resource Network (CLRN), a 10 - year - old project established by the Board of Education that has long hosted supplemental electronic resources for the state.

While the real power of open - source textbooks, Bridges and others say, is being able to tap into the knowledge of the nation's 3 million schoolteachers, a look at the recent crop of books suggests that's not an accurate reflection of how educational content is being created.

The cash - strapped state launched the nation's first open source digital textbook initiative last May, asking content providers to submit high school - level math and science texts for free.

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

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.

Students are guaranteed an engaging learning experience through the ability to build from any source or mode of content, including textbooks, Open Educational Resources (OER), and real - time media.

Digital textbook and non-fiction learning developer Inkling announced an acquisition of two brands of content from Open Air Publishing, adding its Betterbook and Ready, Set, Baby!

The first is that Habitat supports Creative Commons licensing, allowing publishers to create open source content and educational materials; in line with that is Inkling's announcement that it will be creating fifty open source titles for schools in partnership with the 20 Million Minds Foundation, furthering the reach and viability of digital textbooks in environments that are more than ready to receive them.

The Bookseller conducted an interview with Flooved's founder, Hamish Brocklebank, who said, «We pivoted our business model back in December and dropped the publishers as we realised students no longer had to be so dependent on overpriced textbooks... Along the lines of the Open Access movement, we source our content directly from the world's best professors in maths and physics who share our vision that access to educational materials should be free.

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.

Wikibooks is an open - content collection of textbooks that anyone can edit and contribute to.

This omission is intentional, as the framework for addressing and sharing objects is designed to facilitate many different workflows: exchanging Distributable Objects in an open textbook environment, integrating Distributable Objects into content and learning management systems, identifying components of an EPUB Publication for sale separately, and so on.

Chegg, a company best known as a textbook rental site, is partnering with Coursera to distribute its content to students enrolled in massive open online courses.