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T hey're free, they're customizable, and they meet state standards. Those are the three biggest selling points of CK12 Flexbooks, digital educational content for K-12 schools. FlexBooks are developed through a combination of author donations, licensing partnerships, university collaborations, and incentives for community-based authorship, and teachers can customize them to their hearts' content.

Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12. CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.

Free online textbooks. You can customize them once you sign up for a free educators account. It may take up to several days to be approved.

An anti-textbook rant

When we teach math we are helping our students establish a framework for interpreting the world. One of the worst ways I know to help them establish that framework is to print an illustration of a real-world scene in a textbook, write in only the relevant measurements, and tell the students in the text of the problem which formula or strategy to apply. This leaves a student helpless and unprepared (in the mathematical, analytical sense) should she ever encounter the world that exists outside the pages of her textbook. So we instead bring digital media from the world into the classroom, simulations of the world as students experience it, artifacts which students can discuss and to which they can apply frameworks of their choice. In order to leave students capable and prepared for their encounters with the world, this media must be captured and presented very intentionally.

The full text of almost every single selection from the textbook Holt Elements of Literature Fourth Course.

not sure how this one's legal, but my 10th grade English teachers LOVE it!

A digital History textbook created by students, for students!!! A collaboration between Two Middle School.

Are textbook publishers scared yet? Wolfram Education Portal goes live:

Wow. Don't tools like this have REAL potential to change the classroom?

CK-12 allows one to customize and produce content by re-purposing to suit what needs to be taught, using different modules that may suit a learner's learning style, region, language, or level of skill, while adhering to the local education standards.

Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework. HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

resources (animations, simulations, labs) arranged by topic or following your textbook. Free registration and ability to create your own frontpage tailored to your course/students.

The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams.

downloadable virtual tour of cell with textbook information to accompany

Free help with algebra, biology, environ science, Am gov, US history, physics. Linked to many common textbooks

Project THIS one out about ten years - when textbook makes begin to produce this for schools. WOW!

Locate and use resources from McDougal Littell textbooks online.

A virtual chemistry textbook. Provides an interactive guide for HS chemistry students. CHEMystery further expands chemistry knowledge by letting user interact with other Internet resources.

Includes online textbook, primary sources, explorations, handouts, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.