California is certifying free digital textbooks, so here the original source does not matter much.
FLOSS Manuals and Earth Treasury have as part of their business models looking for development contracts for Free Software manuals and Free replacements for paper textbooks. I was paid to participate in the book sprint for How to Bypass Internet Censorship, which was commissioned by Sesawe.net, and has been translated into several of the relevant languages, such as Farsi. http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CircumventionTools/WebHome https://sesawe.net/-Manuals-fa-.html On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:58, valerie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sam got this right, especially in US education - Right now people > "trust" the "brand" of MIT - the infallibility of anything that costs > a lot of money and has a great PR department. > > Wikipedia, Connexions, MERLOT are free, so most of my colleagues are > unwilling to consider these as academically rigorous. This is a > surprisingly big hurdle to overcome. Students are having to drop out > of school because everything is so expense - $100-150 textbooks, > $30-50 course packs, even though their tuition is essentially free - > California community college s about $20 per unit. > > But like the man said - Times, they are a changin... > > ..Valerie > > > On Nov 15, 6:20 am, Samuel Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
