Stephen Downes

Open Textbook Challenge Wave I Winners Announced!!
Unattributed, Saylor Journals, January 31, 2012.

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Summarizing this press release the Saylor Foundation is announcing the release of three open access textbooks: Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice, by Olivier Bonaventure, as well as Elementary Linear Algebra and Linear Algebra, both by Kenneth Kuttler. More here. Each author received $20,000 for the contribution (Bonaventure opted to donated his earnings to transfer the money to the Fondation Louvain, a non-profit foundation that is managed by Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) where he works). Image. (Hits Today: 3 Total: 537) [Direct Link] [Tags: Flickr, Books, Open Access]

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Re: Open Textbook Challenge Wave I Winners Announced!!

mgozaydin, February 1, 2012

Here it is .

Now everybody knows Apple ibooks at $ 14.99
but nobody knows Saylor's free books .
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