(re)Inventing the free online textbook
Sean Connor,
Colony,
May 14, 2013
Saylor knows how we feel. "First came free online courses. Now come…free online textbooks (Coursera to offer students free online textbooks, with conditions | WaPo). Call us picky, but the implication that free textbooks are an xMOOC innovation is a bit frustrating, especially coming a couple days before we announced the release of a free-and-open, no-strings-attached college mathematics textbook. Even more especially after we've spent a couple years seeking, vetting, and deploying free, open textbooks, in free, open-as-we-can-get-'em courses." I would say "a bit frustrating" is probably a bit of an understatement.
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