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Open Textbooks Resources
Welcome to the Open Textbooks Wiki
A site designed to provide links and information about finding and adopting open textbooks.
I have been using open textbooks in my physics classes at South Florida Community College for three years and would never go back to a traditional textbook. The adaptability offered by open textbooks is phenomenal. Having the luxury to be able to customize the course text to mirror your teaching strategies and to have the flexibility to cover topics the way you want is extremely rewarding. Once I took the plunge to adopt an open textbook, I never looked back. I hope you will find similar success and personal satisfaction. Good luck.
- Hyperlinks to a variety of open textbook sources can be found below.
(If you find others, please add them to this wiki)
- Videos discussing open textbooks can be found on the video link above.
- A two-page flyer and PowerPoint discussing open textbooks can be found here.
- A quick guide to deciphering Creative Commons
 | Orange Grove Text Plus (OGT+) Florida's operational repository project of open source educational materials. |
| http://www.theorangegrove.org |
 | The Assayer The web's largest catalog of open source textbooks and is a particularly good place to find free books about math, science, and computers. |
| http://theassayer.org |
 | CCCOER A collaborative effort to develop and use open educational resources (OER) in community college courses. |
| http://cccoer.wordpress.com/resources/ |
 | Flat World Knowledge A free, open source textbook publisher. |
| http://www.flatworldknowledge.com |
 | Connexions A content commons of free, open-licensed educational materials in fields such as music, electrical engineering and psychology. |
| http://cnx.org |
 | Wikibooks A Wikipedia community for creating and sharing educational textbooks. |
| http://www.wikibooks.org |
 | Merlot A free and open resource designed primarily for higher education. |
| http://www.merlot.org |
 | OER Commons A worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials. |
| http://www.oercommons.org |
 | MIT OpenCourseWare An initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to all of the educational materials from its undergraduate-level and graduate-level courses online and openly available to anyone. |
| http://ocw.mit.edu |
 | Open Yale courses An initiative of Yale University to provide free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught at Yale. |
| http://oyc.yale.edu |
 | Hippocampus A project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide free and open access to high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students. |
| http://www.hippocampus.org |
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