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anonymous on 27 Apr 08Free textbooks will be available beginning Jan '09. Not sure what grade levels this will be available to (just college?).
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Vicki Davis on 26 Aug 08Open source textbooks - this is a movement in that direction.
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Vicki Davis on 26 Aug 08Interesting tidbit in their press release this week: "Flat World has announced 17 new author titles under contract. Flat World's in-classroom beta test gets underway this week, with 20 participating colleges and universities nationwide." Open Textbooks may be closer -- this model is a more hybridized version. If we had a "wiki to print" tool or technology, then we could literally have grassroots teachers writing and creating textbooks together. This is interesting to follow