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FlexBooks Challenge Textbooks, at No Cost to Students or Schools
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| It is not clear if this is truly an altruistic endeavor. Perhaps the founders
| â who come from the Silicon Valley technology world â are giving away books
| in order to sell software at a later date. But for now, it is an experiment
| that could help bring down the cost of textbooks. And weâre going to keep an
| eye on it.
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http://schoolingtoday.com/wordpress/flexbooks-challenge-textbooks-at-no-cost-to-students-or-schools/
Recent:
Open-Source Textbooks a Mixed Bag in California
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| As California moves forward with the first open-source digital textbook
| program in the nation this fall, the best content seems a lot less like
| Wikipedia and a lot more like traditional publishing.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=open-source-textbooks-mixed-bag-california
Gov. Schwarzenegger Releases Free Digital Textbook Initiative Phase 1 Report
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| Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today released the first report of
| Californiaâs free digital textbook initiative - which outlines how high
| school math and science textbooks submitted under the first phase of the
| initiative measure up against the stateâs rigorous academic content
| standards. Of the 16 free digital textbooks for high school math and science
| reviewed, ten meet at least 90 percent of Californiaâs standards. Four meet
| 100 percent of standards, including the CK-12 Foundationâs CK-12 Single
| Variable Calculus, CK-12 Trigonometry, CK-12 Chemistry and Dr. H. Jerome
| Keislerâs Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach.
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http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/12996/
As textbook costs stack up, interest grows in e-books
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| âWhen Pluto becomes not a planet, you can fix it very quickly,â said Rich
| Baraniuk, an engineering professor at Rice University who pioneered the field
| of open source class materials. âIt's going to take a decade to get Pluto out
| of all the nation's printed science books.â
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6574256.html
Open source, digital textbooks coming to California schools
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| The cash-strapped Golden State has decided that, starting next school year,
| schools will be able to use open source, digital textbooks for a number of
| math and science subjects. Ars talked with Brian Bridges, the Director of the
| California Learning Resources Network, which will be reviewing the texts, to
| find out more about what the program entails.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/open-source-digital-textbooks-coming-to-california-schools.ars
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