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OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks

348 点作者 pome将近 7 年前

12 条评论

skh将近 7 年前
I teach mathematics at a community college and use free materials in my courses or use materials that I’ve created. I never use paid materials in my courses. The reason I can do this is because math doesn’t change from year to year. I’m in a subject whose content is static. Even so most open textbooks are quite bad. I’ve only found a few that were really good.<p>Writing a good book even in a field whose content doesn’t change much is hard. There’s a need for publishers but just not a need for one that charges hundreds of dollars for a textbook. It might not be economically feasible to have a publisher put out quality textbooks for less money but I can’t justify forcing my students to spend $200 to $300 per semester on a math textbook.
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heydenberk将近 7 年前
I&#x27;ve often thought that textbooks would be a productive place to focus excess energy among software freedom types. The way I see it, there are at least three ways in which most technology professionals could effectively contribute:<p>- Content production and editing<p>- Improving the design and branding of open textbook purveyors<p>- Advocating for the adoption of open source textbooks in your local K-12 system and community colleges (especially the more cash-strapped ones)<p>I know of no organization that attempts to organize community efforts in these directions, though. If there is one, I&#x27;d love to know about it and get involved. If not, maybe it&#x27;s an idea whose time has come.
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uniqdom将近 7 年前
You can find those and more here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.umn.edu&#x2F;opentextbooks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.umn.edu&#x2F;opentextbooks&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m still looking for the sources. I would like to compile them to epub format
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rectang将近 7 年前
&gt; <i>OpenStax at Rice University is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity</i><p>Good to see that OpenStax is a 501(c)(3) charity, which is the nonprofit classification where donations are tax-deductible and thus restricted. That makes it harder for the organization to be influenced too directly by sponsors, since donations cannot be used for purposes which would yield direct marketplace advantage.<p>I also see that they use a permissive, attribution-based license for their publications. That makes it easier for businesses to consume those materials and also to contribute.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openstax.org&#x2F;license" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openstax.org&#x2F;license</a><p>&gt; <i>The Creative Commons Attribution license that you and every author must agree to enables the content to be as reusable as possible.</i><p>The combination of 501(c)(3) and business-friendly licensing reminds me of the Apache Software Foundation. The more orgs using that formula, the better!
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notafraudster将近 7 年前
The content here seems fairly good, but from opening a random sample of textbooks, I notice pretty consistently poor presentation and formatting. Almost everything is presented in a wall of single column text with long paragraphs, a small font, and limited in-set visualization. This was especially bad in Intro Sociology and Intro to U.S. Government from what I checked.<p>I found some pagination &#x2F; page break issues (e.g. page 379 in Intro Statistics is empty and the transition from 381 to 382 also has a weird orphan problem). The same section also has section numbering problems. Edit: Reading more, I see a ton of equations that aren&#x27;t rendered very well (page 405 in intro stats, look at all of the \bar{x} in the first half -- is this even using LaTeX to render or is this like a bad Microsoft Word equation editor thing?)<p>In the statistics world, OpenIntro Statistics -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openintro.org&#x2F;stat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openintro.org&#x2F;stat&#x2F;</a> -- seems quite a lot better as a textbook
philschatz将近 7 年前
If you would like to help, the code is open source at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openstax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openstax</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;connexions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;connexions</a> ... Also, OpenStax is hiring! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jobs.rice.edu&#x2F;postings&#x2F;14338" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jobs.rice.edu&#x2F;postings&#x2F;14338</a><p>(Disclaimer: I currently work at OpenStax, but am not speaking on behalf of OpenStax)
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HarryHirsch将近 7 年前
Good to see that they offer free slides for the instructor. Now what&#x27;s missing for widespread adoption is the online autograding system because at teaching colleges instructors are totally overworked and could not keep up with the weekly assignments even if they wanted to. College textbooks are chosen for the online student assignments, which typically cost the students 50 USD or thereabouts.
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ward将近 7 年前
I like it.<p>For some of these though, I feel like it would be nice if an &quot;order&quot; was established between different books (or the lack thereof mentioned). At least, I do not immediately seem to spot a mention of this.<p>What I mean is that I assume College Physics comes before University Physics, but at what point are you ready to start Astronomy? Also, where does College Physics for AP Courses fit in? (that might be more obvious for Americans?) How about the Biology books, do I need them for Anatomy?
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demonshreder将近 7 年前
KDE has wiki like collaborative program - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikitolearn.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikitolearn.org&#x2F;</a>
ta76567656将近 7 年前
See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikibooks.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikibooks.org</a>
chrisper将近 7 年前
What&#x27;s the difference between this and cnx.org? It seems tho have more books
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wowtip将近 7 年前
Hmm, any technical reason for providing only PDF and no epub format?
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