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Excellent piece on the changing digital landscape and what it means for content. "Look around the next time you're sat on a crowded city bus during commuting hours. Most people's headphones are now plugged into their phones. If by some chance they're not listening to music then they're reading the paper, a book, checking twitter, posing on facebook, writing an email, updating their diary or taking a photo and sticking a vintage filter on it while on their phone, or tablet, or e-reader. And they probably are listening to music while doing all the above."

Create your own books free online. Allows collaboration on the web too.  Web software is open source and could be installed on our servers.

The first chapter of the book.

Social e-books - what will they think of next :)

An online book by the Google Chrome team about things that you should probably know or be aware of when using the web.

Downloadable book with 87 projects. Apparently focussed on school level but worth checking out.

How to use Zotero with Google Books, Scholar and Docs. A bit limited on the latter.

"Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies. This book will explore these changes, their implications for higher education,..."

More than 8000 books online in a free, readable format.

The purpose of this e-book is to explore the use of mobile devices in learning in higher education, and to provide examples of good pedagogy. We are sure that the rich variety of examples of mobile learning found in this book will provide the reader with the inspiration to teach their own subjects and courses in ways that employ mobile devices in authentic and creative ways. This book is made up of a collection of double blind peer-reviewed chapters written by participants in the project New technologies, new pedagogies: Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning.

'Full' text (google book) of research on setting up students as researchers to enable their learning.

Article & book on integrating Moodle2, Mahara and Google Docs. Looks useful.

"To save everything, click here' - a review of Morozov's book which sounds interesting enough to read ... if I can just get off the Internet.

What books are taught in unis?

Book. Free, downloadable.