… The development of Writing Commons, an open-education resource, illustrates some of the
… as content creators and publishers. From its beginnings as a text locked behind a publisher’s …

… The program’s goal is to create an open textbook publishing system spearheaded and … and
build a sustainable academic-friendly publishing model for open textbooks. Why Textbooks? …

… , ‘open’ does not equal ‘no cost.’ This article will explore some of the forces that are driving
the open-access … of Florida Department of Mathematics project for open-access calculus texts. …

… The traditional publishing industry would finds it increasingly difficult to keep pace with the …
textbook contents as authors, editors and reviewers. Second, the quality of the open textbooks …

… Open textbook publishers have consequently aligned their content to widely used curriculum
standards used in the USA and Canada. This makes the initial proposition less daunting …

… The timeliness and importance of including libraries in Open Textbook publishing are … in
textbook costs through faculty adoption of open textbooks and open educational resources!” (…

… theory from programed textbooks to open textbooks for individual … All textbooks are published
under a Creative Common … a derivative version of any published textbook. With a simple …

… Open textbooks provide faculty and students with a low cost alternative to traditional publishers’
textbooks … Connexions provides a publishing platform for open textbook projects. The …

… note this overview of open-access electronic textbooks has not … impact on the book publishing
industry (CitationTonkery 2010). … on open-access electronic textbook publishing cannot be …

… the open textbooks are generally a lower quality product than traditional publisher-produced
textbooks, … Teachers who participated in the open textbook development tended to value the …