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free / open source books and materials

who

everybody

what

discussion about alternativeswhat is a textbooknew resourcesweb 2.0

canonical sources

iana.org

what is open sourcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons

low cost textbooks

why

excessive costschurning versions

“Learning by Doing” Matt Bashamm

where

world wide

ietf.org BeldenBlack Box

when

nowthree years running

how

minimal effort

consortiumspublic domain - HanonIana.orgACMWikipedia (links)

issues

printing large Print licences quality assessments marketing / advertising

next

wiki - blog - twitterpbwiki site shared infogroup brain / listservinstructor - 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/2008/08/12/connexions

OER initiatives supported by the Hewlett Foundation

MIT Open Coursewarehttp://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Utah State University OpenCourseWarehttp://ocw.usu.edu/

http://www.cmu.edu/oli/

Carnegie Mellon UniversityOpen Learning Initiative http://www.cmu.edu/oli/

The Open Knowledge Foundationhttp://www.okfn.org/

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health OpenCourseWarehttp://ocw.jhsph.edu/

Tufts University OpenCourseWarehttp://ocw.tufts.edu/

google

bundles

Paul

scholar

Computer Forensics

book- 2 years old

canonical resource- “best evidence”

entire courses

p2pu.org

http://oerconsortium.org/

http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/jgonder/opensourcebooks/

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