{"id":1538,"date":"2012-02-13T15:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2017-06-19T18:05:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T18:05:38","slug":"open-source-textbooks-aim-to-curb-education-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2012\/02\/13\/open-source-textbooks-aim-to-curb-education-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-Source Textbooks Aim to Curb Education Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1539 alignleft\" title=\"Open Text Books\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/03-books-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/03-books-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/03-books-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/03-books-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/03-books.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> A recent article appearing in <a title=\"Big Savings for U.S. Students in Open-Source Book Program\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/13\/us\/big-savings-for-us-students-in-open-source-book-program.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> highlights progress in the open-source textbook movement by <a title=\"Connexions\" href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connexions<\/a>, &#8220;a dynamic digital educational ecosystem&#8221;\u00a0based at Rice University in Houston. Over the next few months, Connexions, via <a title=\"OpenStax College\" href=\"http:\/\/openstaxcollege.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStax College<\/a>, will provide an initial offering of freely available textbooks covering physics, sociology, introductory biology, anatomy, and physiology.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Connexions\u2019 director, Richard Baraniuk, said, \u201cif we capture just 10 percent of the market with these first five textbooks\u201d students in the United States could save $90 million over the next five years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The content, provided using an open license, will allow faculty to freely customize the content to fit the needs of their course.<\/p>\n<p>For more information view the full article at\u00a0<a title=\"Big Savings for U.S. Students in Open-Source Book Program\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/13\/us\/big-savings-for-us-students-in-open-source-book-program.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article appearing in The New York Times highlights progress in the open-source textbook movement by Connexions, &#8220;a dynamic digital educational ecosystem&#8221;\u00a0based at Rice University in Houston. Over the next few months, Connexions, via OpenStax College, will provide an initial offering of freely available textbooks covering physics, sociology, introductory biology, anatomy, and physiology. Connexions\u2019 director, Richard Baraniuk, said, \u201cif we capture just 10 percent of the market with these first five textbooks\u201d students in the United States could save $90 million over the next five years. The content, provided using an open license, will allow faculty to freely customize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2012\/02\/13\/open-source-textbooks-aim-to-curb-education-costs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open-Source Textbooks Aim to Curb Education Costs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,125,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-technology","category-open-source","category-students","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-oO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}