Open Academia - A Philosophy Of Open Practice

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Could you please teachMotivation and Emotionnext semester?Yes, I'll be happyto teach that unit
it sounds really interesting.

Despite over 100 years
of modern psychology
a textbook search
reveals a limited
range of expensive,
copyright-restricted
North American books.

Textbook prices have outpaced inflation 2-to-1 in the past two decades (2005 report by the USA Government Accountability Office)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-07-09-open-textbooks_N.htm

How about we develop
free and open textbooks
to help break the cycleof closed and restrictedknowledge development.Students and colleagues
can be co-authors.