The Open Textbook Challenge
Each year US college students spend about $1,000 on textbooks.
The Saylor Foundation wants to change this by providing free and open textbooks that can be used throughout an undergraduate education.
To do so they’ve launched the Open Textbook Challenge and offer $20,000 prizes to authors who create Creative Commons licensed textbooks in topics ranging from art history to business management to mechanical engineering.
For authors, the next round of grants and prizes closes May 31. Information about submitting material is here.
For students, petition your professors (and schools) to start using these materials.
Image: Screenshot from Elementary Linear Algebra (PDF) from Open Textbook Challenge winner Kenneth Kuttler of Brigham Young University.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
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