New Model for Textbooks Makes Content Openly Available
A recent Wired article “Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm” focuses on a new way to publish textbooks, study guides and other course materials. FlatWoldKnowledge offers the content of textbooks openly available on the web at no cost, helping students who worry about high price textbooks. This new publishing model makes a profit when students buy print copies and study guides.
This model is unique, but other open-access teaching material projects include CourseSmart, Connexions at Rice University, and the Global Text Project at the University of GA.
