Open Source College Textbooks

Open source college textbooks, from slashdot.

Original artical in the L.A. Times.

Oooh, and bribes for not going to the open-source side from publishers desperate to push overpriced products.

You too can sign the statement to make textbooks afforfable by taking advantage of open source resources.

And check out the following resources. Even better, contribute.

• MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
• Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
• MIT's OpenCourseWare
• WikiBooks

And let me end with some interesting thoughts on money ... from Princeton via the Japan Times.

The most wonderful thing about the Internet is finding out how many other people share your point of view when you're in a funk and feel like a lone voice in the wilderness.