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[edit] Textbookrevolution.Org
Textbook Revolution is the web’s source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value. At Textbook Revolution, you’ll find links to textbooks and select educational resources of all kinds. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable only online as e-books. Most books are aimed at undergraduates, but there are at least a few resources at every level, from kindergarten to post-doc.
- Search books by Subject, license (GNU FDL, CC by, CC by-sa, CC by nc ..etc)
- Involve students, professors, authors
[edit] SoftHum Educational Development Wiki
This site contains an expanding collection of teaching materials and guidance to instructors embarking on getting students involved in Humanitarian FOSS projects. The site welcomes contributions from open source educators.
[edit] Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
The primary goal of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources is to identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty. The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the League for Innovation in the Community College and many other community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and especially open textbooks in community college courses.
[edit] ANU FOSS Development Course
The Australian National University in Canberra has started to run an annual masters level course in FOSS development. The intensive part of the course runs over 5 days, split approximately 50/50 between lab and lecture time. After that the students need to complete two assignments, one based on their lab work and the other based on the lecture material.
All of the course material plus videos of the lectures for the (southern) Autumn 2009 (April/May) course have been released on the course website under a creative commons license. If anyone wants more information or higher quality copies of the videos then feel free to contact the course lecturers.
[edit] RPI - Open Source Software Practices Course
The Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS) in collaboration with Kitware Inc. have offered a course on Open Source Practices in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The course is oriented to undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
All the Course Materials are available under Creative Commons by Attribution License. The course had evolved over three years and has been attended by about twenty students every year.