The Case of the Textbook: Open or Closed? (EDUCAUSE Review)

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EDUCAUSE Review Options View PDF Navigation EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 44, Number 1, January/February 2009 College Complexity and Scale in Audio Archives Education in the Digital Age EDUCAUSE Values: Openness Executive Summary Future Cyberinfrastructure Internet Policy in a Time of Economic Uncertainty It Takes a Consortium to Support Open Textbooks Making Uncommon Common Managing the Platform: Higher Education and the Logic of Wikinomics On Ensuring That Intellectual Property Public Policy Promotes Progress Online Textbooks Deliver Timely, Real-World Content Open Source: Narrowing the Divide between Education, Business, and Community Some Thoughts on Free Textbooks The Case of the Textbook: Open or Closed? The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Emergency Communications Management The NetGens 2.0: Clouds on the Horizon The Textbook That Is Truly Free		The Case of the Textbook: Open or Closed? The Case of the Textbook: Open or Closed? As the price of college/university textbooks continues to rise, new electronic models and various “open” options are being proposed from all sides: by publishers, by students, and by authors and institutions. Viewpoints from these segments, along with discussions of their solutions, are presented here. First is an excerpt—the “College” chapter—from the latest edition of Book Industry Trends, published annually by the Book Industry Study Group, the leading U.S. book industry trade association for policy, standards, and research, with a membership consisting of publishers, manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, librarians, and others engaged in the business of print and electronic media. Second is the “Executive Summary” from Course Correction, published by the Student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) as part of the Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign. Third, authors and higher education institutions are represented by the stories of three open-source textbook authors—Rob Beezer, Robert Stewart, and John Gallaugher—and two open-access institutional repositories: CCCOER and Connexions. Openness \| Textbooks Login or register to post comments 6005 reads Bookmark/Search this page with: I can't find it either. . . . Submitted by Cathleen Alfano (Florida Distance Learning Consortium) on April 6, 2009 - 8:43am. I can't find it either. . . . . Login or register to post comments Missing Article? Submitted by Dave Mackey (Philadelphia Biblical University) on March 18, 2009 - 1:33pm. Am I missing something or is the body of this article missing? Login or register to post comments
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