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H2O is a suite of online classroom tools developed and provided by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society in collaboration with the Harvard Law School Library. H2O allows professors to freely develop, remix, and share online textbooks under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License (per the Terms of Service).
For the lulz.
As America's most fearless purveyor of "truthiness," Stephen Colbert shines a light on ego-driven punditry, moral hypocrisy and government incompetence, raising the bar for political satire.
Southern New Hampshire U. looks to combat high textbook prices by negotiating with bookstore vendors, not content publishers.
WHAT.
An Overview of the Textbook Market and Strategies to Reduce Costs Nicole Allen …
OER for medical education.
Amazon solves the e-textbook push/device-management problem, finally.
What if you had to ask permission before selling, lending, or even giving away your books? On October 29, the Supreme Court hears oral argument in the case of Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, a case that could change the way we own everything from books to watches. Libraries, who own books, movies, and other copyrighted works on behalf of all of us, could be hit especially hard.
Backers hope to offset rising cost of traditional textbooks.
Elsevier partners with edX to provide free versions of textbooks to MOOC students | Inside Higher Ed
Elsevier will offer free (but basic) digital versions of one of its textbooks to MOOC students through edX, hoping it will drive traditional sales.
Brent Ashley shares the absolutely crazy story of how his daughter, a student at OCAD University in Canada, is taking a class on...
Have you checked out Boundless yet? The idea is either brilliant or criminal, depending on your perspective.
Charging $162 for a textbook may or may not be morally acceptable, but I am pretty confident that it will soon cease to be commercially sustainable.
Instead of trying to persuade K-12 schools or district boards to adopt digital textbooks on a widespread scale, Kno is embarking on a diff...
Canadian students are adopting digital textbooks in the classroom. But for many it seems print remains the preferred choice.