Goodbye, Textbooks; Hello, Open-Source Learning
College is expensive enough as it is; wouldn’t it be nice if your textbooks were on the side of more affordable? Fortunately, as education evolves from classroom to online, so does class material.
At TED, Ideas Worth Spreading, Richard Baraniuk from Rice University discusses a program implemented by their university that offers open-source learning content under the Creative Commons license. This material acts as an alternative to textbooks in the classroom, providing a wealth of knowledge to the online learning populace, similar to Wikipedia.
Watch the video to learn more:
It is a long time coming that these text book companies lose some of their enormous profits. E-Books should be the only things students need.
in some places, getting to the appropriate textbooks is difficult, since they’re conditioned to the number of copies that publishing companies decide to publish, that’0s sometihng that don’t affect e-books, since the only thing you need is a computer and internet connection. it’s a good alternative to boost education all around the globe. however, I still love the experience of reading a book wherever I am.