There is an organization that I am on which promotes open college textbooks. I am on it and review textsfor them. I will let them know. gene
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:30 AM, aprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > > A good news for OER from the website of Assistant Senate Majority Leader > (USA) Dick Durbin : > > "Assistant Senate Majority Leader (USA) Dick Durbin(D-IL) today > introduced legislation designed to help students manage costs by making > textbooks available to students, professors and the public for free on an > easily-accessible website. This bill, known as the Open College Textbook > Act, would create a competitive grant program for institutions of higher > education, professors and organizations to create textbooks that can be made > available online and licensed under terms that grant the public the right to > access, customize and distribute the material, also known as “open > textbooks”. > > See the full text at > http://durbin.senate.gov/showRelease.cfm?releaseId=318279 > -- > Warm regards > > Anil > > -- > 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] -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. -- 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]
