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As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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“In five years, I think the majority of students will be using digital textbooks,” said William M. Habermehl, superintendent of the 500,000-student Orange County schools. “They can be better than traditional textbooks.”
- Ben Rimes on 29 Sep 09
  
  What sort of strain would something like this put on many school district's limited bandwidth and IT resources? Just this fall, our online 5th grade math program has encountered numerous problems. When more than just 4 or 5 teachers are using the online text with students, it bogs down the entire network, and brings learning to a crawl. Eliminating traditional paper-based and paid textbooks will not save any money, but rather shift the funds into IT invetment in order to deliver increasingly larger videos, media, and other open-content resources.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">What sort of strain would something like this put on many school district's limited bandwidth and IT resources? Just this fall, our online 5th grade math program has encountered numerous problems. When more than just 4 or 5 teachers are using the online text with students, it bogs down the entire network, and brings learning to a crawl. Eliminating traditional paper-based and paid textbooks will not save any money, but rather shift the funds into IT invetment in order to deliver increasingly larger videos, media, and other open-content resources.</div>
  
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Flat World Knowledge LLC - 0 views

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cc free open textbook

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Paul McKenzie on 28 Apr 08

This is the future - wish I had it when I was young

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This is the future - wish I had it when I was young - free, open, cc textbooks for higher ed.

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Paul McKenzie on 28 Apr 08

This is the future - wish I had it when I was young - free, open, cc textbooks for higher ed.

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Paul McKenzie on 28 Apr 08

This is the future - wish I had it when I was young - free, open, cc textbooks for higher ed.

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CK-12 - Next Generation Textbooks - 0 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 13 Apr 09 - Cached

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.
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Who Needs Textbooks When You Can iAuthor Your Own iBooks? | EdReach - 9 views

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Shane Stevens on 20 Jun 11

Create your own mobile textbooks with audio, images, video, and web links

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California Schools Replace Math Textbooks with iPads | Cult of Mac - 15 views

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Toward an All E-Textbook Campus :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for Ne... - 0 views

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Dean Mantz on 14 Jan 09

The movement from textbooks to ebooks.

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textbooksfree.org - 0 views

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shared by Walter Antoniotti on 13 Nov 08 - Cached

Walter Antoniotti on 13 Nov 08

Collection of Internet Materials to enhance the movement to replace expensive paper textbooks with les expensive and often free Internet learning materials.

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Cafescribe - 13 views

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Roland O'Daniel on 20 May 10

Is this the direction textbooks will take in the near future? The content is important and is the center of this idea. It's also slightly portable (downloadable, accessible on up t o3 computers, and able to print 30%). This site makes annotations possible and more importantly sharable! The content is supported by learning communities! I like this idea; you even have the possibility of sharing beyond your classroom walls.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Is this the direction textbooks will take in the near future? The content is important and is the center of this idea. It's also slightly portable (downloadable, accessible on up t o3 computers, and able to print 30%). This site makes annotations possible and more importantly sharable! The content is supported by learning communities! I like this idea; you even have the possibility of sharing beyond your classroom walls. </div>

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Doing pure math on the iPad - Press-Telegram - 20 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached

Dean Mantz on 12 Jan 11

California school uses iPads for digital textbooks.

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CK12.ORG - FlexBooks - 16 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 02 Feb 11 - No Cached

Dean Mantz on 02 Feb 11

Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K12.

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A Case For Open Source Textbooks [INFOGRAPHIC] - 14 views

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List Sharing - SpellingCity.com - 3 views

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spelling vocabulary textbook

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Cara Whitehead on 31 Jul 11

Word lists from textbook series

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Game - Meta!Blast - 3 views

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Jennifer Lamkins on 12 Dec 12

Metablast is a real-time 3D action-adventure video game, aimed at high school and undergraduate student audiences, meant to provide an entertaining, engaging experience while simultaneously educating players about cell biology. By immersing players into a virtual cell environment and allowing them to interact with it on their own terms, the developers hope that players will come to a greater understanding of the cell than they could learn from traditional diagrams and textbooks.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Metablast is a real-time 3D action-adventure video game, aimed at high school and undergraduate student audiences, meant to provide an entertaining, engaging experience while simultaneously educating players about cell biology. By immersing players into a virtual cell environment and allowing them to interact with it on their own terms, the developers hope that players will come to a greater understanding of the cell than they could learn from traditional diagrams and textbooks. </div>

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CK12.ORG - FlexBooks - 8 views

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Flat World Knowledge - 3 views

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Jennifer Lamkins on 14 Oct 10

Open, free textbook initiative

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Excel Statistics Lab Manual - 0 views

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shared by Walter Antoniotti on 13 Nov 08 - Cached

Walter Antoniotti on 13 Nov 08

Free Internet lab manual for the free Internet textbook Statistics using The Quick Notes Learning System. Problems are in column A with directions on how to do them. Data is in column B as is a place for Excel to put the answer. User follows the directions, answers are generated by Excel, user interprets the answer. Complete solution provided in the next worksheet.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Free Internet lab manual for the free Internet textbook Statistics using The Quick Notes Learning System. Problems are in column A with directions on how to do them. Data is in column B as is a place for Excel to put the answer. User follows the directions, answers are generated by Excel, user interprets the answer. Complete solution provided in the next worksheet.</div>

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Are Traditional Textbooks Dead? - 2 views

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coolcatteacher blog

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drew polly on 18 Jun 09

Interesting thoughts...

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FLOSS Manuals (en) - 10 views

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shared by Mitch Weisburgh on 09 Apr 10 - Cached

Mitch Weisburgh on 09 Apr 10

free open source curriculum, textbooks, and manuals on technical topics, such as audio editing, graphics, linux, video editing, blogging, streaming, open office, firefox, and VOIP

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iPad for Learning for All the Wrong Reasons - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning - 10 views

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learning ipad EwanMcIntosh

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Dean Mantz on 05 Jan 11

Nice and insightful blog post about why iPads can be beneficial beyond just replacing textbooks.

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LibriVox - 10 views

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Clif Mims on 04 Feb 14

Free public domain audiobooks. #meca14

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Walter Antoniotti on 09 Feb 14

I added a link to the Free Textbooks and Lecture Notes section of http://www.textbooksfree.org/

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