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" Funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, College Open Textbooks is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for open textbooks. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that provide support to authors who open their resources. Through our community outreach, we have found that open textbooks should be: * easy to use, get and pass around, * editable so instructors can customize content, * cross-platform compatible, * printable, * and accessible so they work with adaptive technology. "

Many comments (185) - pro and con http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/bill-gates-education/ * college needs to be less "place-based," * overall point is that it's just too expensive and too hard to get these upper-level educations. * soon place-based college educations will be five times less important than they are today. * no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it. * textbooks are too long... even in grade school some are 300 pages. * our text books are three times longer than the equivalents in Asia.

This is an excellent on-line resource for teaching statistics, research, or referencing for specific topics involving statistics.

"I have taken both the iPad and the 3G iPhone to my clinical site, and the University where I work, and found that each has its advantages and disadvantages. Here they are:"

A short and insightful look at the iPad vs the iPhone in clincial situations by a nurse educator. Pays attention to the potential for e-Textbooks on the iPad.

great blog!