Saylor Foundation Releases New College Textbooks
February 3rd, 2012 | Author: Larry COOPERMAN
The Saylor Foundation, an open education non-profit, has begun to release the first wave of free college textbooks that have undergone editing and peer review. The latest textbook is Mathematical Analysis I, but all of the most common subjects taught at the university level will have corresponding free textbooks available at the end of the second wave of their project. Purdue University has already adopted the Mathematical Analysis text for one course.
The Saylor Foundation incentivizes authors by awarding up to $20,000 for textbooks in exchange for the use of an open license. Details can be found here.
Are you a UCI professor or lecturer who is looking into contributing to the Saylor initiative or who is interested in using its textbooks? We’re interested in hearing your story. Please give us a call at 949-824-9976 or email us at ljcooper at uci dot edu.
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