http://www.opentextbook.org A registry of textbooks that anyone can access, reuse and redistribute Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:27:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Free Technology Academy has announced the availability of Introduction to Free Software, one of a series of modules teaching/learning modules which intend to support university level courses that use free software to teach computer and technology concepts. The Free Technology Academy (FTA) is a joint initiative from several educational institutes ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2010/01/18/free-technology-academy/ At the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) there were several announcements of new devices that fit, if only loosely, into the category of ebook reader. Examples include the large format (and expensive) QUE from Plastic Logic, the Skiff from Hearst which is directed at newspapers. Education isn't the center of the ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2010/01/12/aftermath-of-ces/ Paul Hewson at the University of Plymouth got in touch about a textbook he is working on, 'Multivariate Statistics with R'. The book is currently being used for teaching the UK and in Italy. On it he writes: This is intended (eventually) to be a book "Introductory Statistics with ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2009/04/03/multivariate-statistics-with-r/ An digital version of How Wikipedia Works by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates has recently been under the [GFDL]( http://howwikipediaworks.com/apf.html). From the blurb: Wikipedia is made up of people just like you: students, professors, and everyday experts and fans. With about 10,000 articles added to Wikipedia each week, ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/10/03/how-wikipedia-works/ Musopen, a "library of copyright free music", is soliciting for contributions to a public domain music theory textbook: As any college student will tell you, textbooks are priced outrageously high. That’s not really news of course. Yet one of our volunteers was especially shocked recently to see how expensive ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/10/02/contributors-wanted-for-public-domain-music-theory-textbook/ A brief note to say there's a post with information about the open textbook virtual meeting at the Open Knowledge Foundation blog! http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/10/02/after-the-open-textbook-virtual-meeting/ We’ve arranged a virtual meeting later this month for anyone interested in open textbooks! See this post on the main Open Knowledge Foundation blog for more details. http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/09/11/open-textbook-virtual-meeting-29th-september-2008/ A brief but interesting little booklet from the Tactical Technology Collective on information design. From the blurb: Modern life is saturated with ever increasing amounts of information, advertising and media with little time to digest what is being said. Against this background, NGOs and advocates too often find the ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/08/12/visualizing-information-for-advocacy-an-introduction-to-information-design/ Introduction to Programming Using Java by David J. Eck at Hobart and William Smith Colleges is available under a CC-BY license. From the blurb: WELCOME TO the fifth edition of Introduction to Programming Using Java, a free, on-line textbook on introductory programming, which uses Java as the language of ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/07/07/introduction-to-programming-using-java/ Dr. Genick Bar-Meir of the Potto Project (which we posted about last October) has released a new book - The Basics of Fluid Mechanics, available under the GFDL. Dr. Bar-Meir is looking for someone to take over the chapter that deals with material properties. If anyone might be interested in ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/05/23/basics-of-fluid-mechanics-new-release-and-call-for-volunteers/