Open Text Book » practical http://www.opentextbook.org A registry of textbooks that anyone can access, reuse and redistribute Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:47:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 P2PU http://www.opentextbook.org/2010/08/16/p2pu/ http://www.opentextbook.org/2010/08/16/p2pu/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:47:00 +0000 Algot Runeman http://www.opentextbook.org/?p=67 P2PU is an initiative designed to promote direct teaching/learning opportunities. You can participate as a student by signing up for a course or as a teacher by designing and running a course.

Una Daly, Associate Director College Open Textbooks Collaborative has proposed a course that should interest anyone reading this blog: Adopting Open Textbooks.

http://wiki.p2pu.org/Adopting-Open-Textbooks

P2PU is certainly in the spirit of things “open.” Sign up for the course and learn more.

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The open textbook process is something you can watch and/or participate in.

Check out the progress of a weekend of work to complete a draft of the FOSS book “Practical Open Source Software Exploration”.

More information is available:

http://iquaid.org/2010/03/26/observe-the-operating-room-wiki2xml-sprint-for-foss-textbook/

http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbookwiki2xmlconversionsprint20100326

]]> http://www.opentextbook.org/2010/03/26/book-sprint/feed/ 1 ‘Wireless Networking in the Developing World’ and ‘How to Accelerate Your Internet’ http://www.opentextbook.org/2007/08/22/wireless-networking-in-the-developing-world-and-how-to-accelerate-your-internet/ http://www.opentextbook.org/2007/08/22/wireless-networking-in-the-developing-world-and-how-to-accelerate-your-internet/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:22:38 +0000 Jonathan Gray http://blog.opentextbook.org/2007/08/22/wireless-networking-in-the-developing-world-and-how-to-accelerate-your-internet/ Here are two interesting open textbooks with practical instructions about communications technologies:

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