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BCcampus. (n.d.) Open textbook project: BCcampus is contributing to the development of an open future for teaching practices and educational resources. Retrieved from https://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ [Explore this site for information on the work that faculty and librarians have done to develop open textbooks for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. The group's open textbook project has 151 textbooks available as of June 1, 2016: https://open.bccampus.ca/2016/06/01/the-b-c-open-textbook-project-celebrates-another-milestone-151-open-textbooks/]

BCcampus. (n.d.) Open textbook project: BCcampus is contributing to the development of an open future for teaching practices and educational resources. Retrieved from https://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ [Explore this site for information on the work that faculty and librarians have done to develop open textbooks for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. The group's open textbook project has 151 textbooks available as of June 1, 2016.]

BCcampus. (n.d.) Open textbook project: BCcampus is contributing to the development of an open future for teaching practices and educational resources. Retrieved from https://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ [Explore this site for information on the work that faculty and librarians have done to develop open textbooks for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. The group's open textbook project has 151 textbooks available as of June 1, 2016: https://open.bccampus.ca/2016/06/01/the-b-c-open-textbook-project-celebrates-another-milestone-151-open-textbooks/] Grant, S. (2015, August 26). Are savvy students sabotaging big textbook? College kids are studying smarter-and cheaper-threatening the textbook industry's high prices. Bloomberg. Retrieved from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-26/are-savvy-students-sabotaging-big-textbook- [High prices are causing students to find ways around purchasing textbooks.] McGuire, H. (2016, April 16). Do textbooks still matter? E-180 Mag. Retrieved from https://mag.e-180.com/2016/04/do-textbooks-still-matter/ [McGuire discusses the concept of "textbook" as a guide to obtaining subject mastery.] Merlot II. https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm A "curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community." MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm "MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity." Example: Asia in the Modern World: Images and Representations: [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21g-027-asia-in-the-modern-world-images-representations-spring-2012/] Course taught in 2012 by Dr. John Dower. Syllabus, video lectures, reading list, link to MIT Visualizing Cultures [http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html] website. (Some i

MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm "MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity." Example: Asia in the Modern World: Images and Representations: [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21g-027-asia-in-the-modern-world-images-representations-spring-2012/] Course taught in 2012 by Dr. John Dower. Syllabus, video lectures, reading list, link to MIT Visualizing Cultures [http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html] website. (Some items on the reading list are not open source.) North Carolina State University. Alt-Textbook Project https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/alttextbook [The Library handles funding to assist faculty in development of open textbooks. See https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stories/alt-textbooks-saving-students-money-and-supporting-innovative-teaching for information on savings for students realized by this program. See http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/09/oa/ncsu-libraries-spur-innovation-through-alt-textbook-grants/#_ for a write up in Library Journal about this project and http://www.technicianonline.com/features/article_317206f2-c8a4-11e5-a906-5b93b1a3e3b4.html for another article in the student newspaper.] North Carolina State University: Open Source Resources https://www.ncsu.edu/it/open_source/ [Henry Schaffer's list of open source software and other resources.] Open Textbook Library. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ ["Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost..." This collection is housed at University of Minnesota.] OpenStax CNX http://cnx.rice.edu A collection of open textbooks and "knowlege chunks" that can be used to create co