http://www.opentextbook.org A registry of textbooks that anyone can access, reuse and redistribute Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:47:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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: ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2010/08/16/p2pu/ Textbook cost, even when purchased in digital form, may stay too high. Here is an interesting interview with the principal of an Italian high school which is planning to create their own textbooks to fight the cost of ordinary textbooks and to fit the texts into the learning style of their ... http://www.opentextbook.org/2010/03/27/high-school-planning-its-own-textbooks/ Observe the process. 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/ 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/