Free textbooks, course materials, online
p2pnet view Open Source:- Do you want to find learning materials in the public domain? Then you’ll want to know about Open Educational Resources Center for California, managed by Foothill College, in Los Altos Hills.
It “brings together information on free and open textbooks and course materials in one location”, says Wired Campus, going on:
“Though the Web site was designed for California’s community-college faculty members, it could be a useful resource for anyone
“California Assembly Bill 2261, which was signed into law in the fall of 2008, authorized the center as a statewide pilot program for California’s 112 community colleges ‘to provide faculty and staff from community-college districts around the state with the information, methods, and instructional materials to establish open education resource centers’.”
It’s to give California’s community-college professors and deans “a way to save time and frustration by pulling together all the information they need if they want to embrace open textbooks on their campus,” the story has Judy Baker, director of the center and dean of the college’s distance-learning program, saying.
The site links to more than 400 open textbooks and peer reviews of open textbooks, says Wired Campus, adding:
“Ms. Baker said the center provided materials as well as instructions on how to use them. When traffic to the site increases, she said, she plans to add discussion forums.”
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Wired Campus – New Web Site Lists Free Online Textbooks, February 9, 2010
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