State Initiatives Regarding Electronic or Open Source Textbooks

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by yvchen. Filed under OpenContent.

http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu/2009/10/state-initiatives-regarding-electronic.html.

Cable Green, eLearning Director for Washington State’s Community College System, points to this useful summary of current Open Textbook initiatives in the US, a movement that is steadily gaining traction as textbooks increase in price and cost becomes an even bigger challenge to prospective students.

(see also Cable’s link to a recent survey on “Faculty Attitudes to Affordable and Open Textbooks.”)

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