Online Textbooks & Open Courses

[Laurie Bartels]

Thought it might be useful and interesting to compile a list of online textbooks and open courses. Here's a bunch to get the list started. Please feel free to add to this!

ONLINE TEXTBOOKS

• Wikibooks
• HippoCampus
• Connexions
• CK-12 FlexBooks

OPEN COURSES - OCW Search (OSW=OpenCourseWare) to find free university courses online

• OPEN Courseware Consortium
• Open Yale courses
• MIT Open Courseware and portions that are especially useful for high school
• UC Berkeley
• Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative

and an informative blog post, Top 10 Universities With Free Courses Online, that provides links and blurbs describing the various programs.

[Elizabeth Allen]

Online books in several languages:
Badosa

[Simon Jeynes]

This is terrific, Laurie. Thank you.

I only add someone I came across recently on YouTube - Professor Eric Mazur and a series - How the Mind Tricks Us....

[Sarah Hanawald]

These don't really qualify as online books, but I've been having my class experiment with using Google Docs more effectively this year. We put several chapters of The Scarlet Letter (public domain) in shared documents and annotated away.

[Demetri Orlando]

Thanks Laurie, I'm going to add these to the wiki pages:

http://www.4dmo.com/w/index.php?title=Open_Source_Educational_Conte...

http://www.4dmo.com/w/index.php?title=Virtual_Online_Schools

It's funny how contributing links to a discussion thread is so much easier for people than adding to a wiki page... or at least that people are much more likely to contribute to a discussion than to edit a wiki page. I've seen this same process with several other areas where we have collected resources (links). I think it has to do with the social element. Interesting food for thought.
-demetri