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opencontent Everyone involved with a university understands the problems with the textbook industry, but it’s encouraging to see mainstream media continue to cover Flat World Knowledge’s approach to solving these problems in a sustainable manner. Online ‘open textbooks’ save students cash in the USA Today Coming This Fall: Free Textbooks in Time FWK is an example … Read more
For those of you that contacted us about problems submitting by the June 30 deadline, we’ve extended the submission deadline until Friday, July 4th at midnight Mountain Daylight Time. Even if you emailed in an abstract and extended abstract, we still need you to submit your proposal via the website. We’ve re-enabled proposal submission; you’ll … Read more
If you have an idea, project, paper, or any other form of activity (believe me, we’re open to nontraditional!) you’ve been considering submitting to the Open Education Conference 2008, today is the day! Head over to http://cosl.usu.edu/events/opened2008/call-for-papers and submit today! We’re looking forward to another awesome conference this year. As Brian Lamb recently gushed: The … Read more