Open Source Education: Free Textbook Archive
College is as much a financial investment as it is an investment of time. While tuition costs tend to be the biggest expense, the cost of textbooks often figure greatly into the total. We’ve previously documented the remixable textbook option whereby professors can pick and choose excerpts from different texts into an electronic gadget — lowering the price of buying numerous books. Still, those measures can prove costly.
In the spirit of open software, Open Culture has begun to compile a collection of free online textbooks; this “growing collection” includes humanities, but mainly offers science and mathematical primers. This collection is completely legal as the collection only includes works (originally published in print) and now published online for free by the authors.
Open Culture: “100+ Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection”
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Lisa Baldini is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. As a student of Graham Harwood, Luciana Parisi, and Matthew Fuller, Lisa's interest in technology lies in how culture is changed from the bottom up through history, materiality, databases, user experience, and affective computing. A student of social media marketing, she sees how people try to engage consumers through technology and how much failure is at hand by misunderstanding the medium. A teacher at heart, she writes and curates in an effort to link the knowledge derived between the academic, art, and business worlds.
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