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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/
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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