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Free Digital Textbook Initiative: Complete Submission List
June 16, 2009 | | 2 Comments
A total of 20 free digital textbooks have been submitted to CLRN for California’s Free Digital Textbook Initiative. All eight eligible subjects are represented. Eight entries come from the CK-12 Foundation, which creates open source Flexbooks for K-12 education; six entries are from college professors, five of whom have doctorates in their subject areas; and Pearson Education has submitted four textbooks. The 20 entries include three Biology/Life Sciences and four Calculus textbooks. Over the next few weeks, CLRN’s science reviews will be conducted the Humboldt County Office of Education and mathematics reviews will performed at the Kings County Office of Education. Review results are scheduled to be released on August 10th. We’ll share more about CLRN’s review process for these special digital textbooks in the next post.
Science
Chemistry
Chemistry
URL: http://www.pearsonschool.com/onlinelearninginitiative
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publisher Contact: LearningInitiative@pearson.com
CK-12 Chemistry
URL: http://cafreetextbooks.ck12.org/science/CK12_Chemistry.pdf
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization that creates open-source Flexbooks.
Publisher Contact: Neeru Khosla, Neeru@ck12.org
Open Source Chemistry Course
URL:http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_Group_CLRN-OpenSourceChemistryCourse/OpenSourceChemsitryCourseGrades9-12?bc=;Coll_Group_CLRN-OpenSourceChemistryCourse.ELRSubmissionForOpenSourceChemstry
Publisher: Curriki
Contact: Barbara Kurshan, bkurshan@curriki.org
Biology/Life Sciences
Biology
URL: http://www.pearsonschool.com/onlinelearninginitiative
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publisher Contact: LearningInitiative@pearson.com
CK-12 Biology
URL: http://cafreetextbooks.ck12.org/science/CK12_Biology.pdf
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization that creates open-source Flexbooks.
Publisher Contact: Neeru Khosla, Neeru@ck12.org
CK-12 Life Science
URL: http://cafreetextbooks.ck12.org/science/CK12_Life_Science.pdf
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization that creates open-source Flexbooks.
Publisher Contact: Neeru Khosla, Neeru@ck12.org
Physics
Light and Matter
URL: http://www.lightandmatter.com/books.html
Publisher: Benjamin Crowell. Dr. Crowell teaches physics at Fullerton College in California.
People’s Physics Book
URL: http://cafreetextbooks.ck12.org/science/Peoples_Physics_Book.pdf
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization that creates open-source Flexbooks.
Publisher Contact: Neeru Khosla, Neeru@ck12.org
Earth Sciences
CK-12 Earth Science
URL: http://cafreetextbooks.ck12.org/science/CK12_Earth_Science.pdf
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization that creates open-source Flexbooks.
Publisher Contact: Neeru Khosla, Neeru@ck12.org
Earth Systems, an Earth Science Course
URL: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_Group_CLRN-OpenSourceEarthScienceCourse/EarthSystemsAnEarthScienceCourse?viewer=info&bc=
Publisher: Curriki
Publisher Contact: Barbara Kurshan, bkurshan@curriki.org
Introduction to Climate Dynamics and Climate Modeling
URL: http://stratus.astr.ucl.ac.be/textbook/
Publisher: Hugues Goosse. Dr. Goosse is a lecturer at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
Publisher Contact: Hugues Gosse, hugues.goosse@uclouvain.be
Math
Geometry
CK-12 Geometry
URL: http://cafreetextbooks.ck12.org/math/CK12_Geometry.pdf
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization that creates open-source Flexbooks.
Publisher Contact: Neeru Khosla, Neeru@ck12.org
Geometry
URL: http://www.pearsonschool.com/onlinelearninginitiative
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publisher Contact: LearningInitiative@pearson.com
Algebra II
Advanced Algebra II
URL: http://cnx.org/content/m19435/1.4/Advanced_Algebra_2_20090615.pdf
Publisher: Connexions
Publisher Contact: Jonathan Emmons, cnx@cnx.org
Algebra 2
URL: http://www.pearsonschool.com/onlinelearninginitiative
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publisher Contact: LearningInitiative@pearson.com
Calculus
Calculus
URL: http://whitman.mathematics.googlepages.com
Publisher: David Guichard. Mr. Guichard is a professor of mathematics at Whitman College in Washington.
Publisher Contact: David Guichard, guichard@whitman.edu
Calculus
URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/Strang/strangtext.htm
Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press (Gilbert Strang). Dr. Strang is a mathematics processor at MIT.
Publisher Contact: Gilbert Strang, gilstrang@gmail.com
CK-12 Single Variable Calculus
URL: http://cafreetextbooks.ck12.org/math/CK12_Calculus.pdf
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization that creates open-source Flexbooks.
Publisher Contact: Neeru Khosla, Neeru@ck12.org
Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach
URL: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html
Publisher: H Jerome Keisler. Dr. Keisler is professor emeritus from the University of Wisconsin.
Publisher Contact: J Jerome Keisler, keisler@math.wisc.edu
Trigonometry
CK-12 Trigonometry
URL: http://cafreetextbooks.ck12.org/math/CK12_Trigonometry.pdf
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation. CK-12 is a non-profit organization that creates open-source Flexbooks.
Publisher Contact: Neeru Khosla, Neeru@ck12.org
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Thanks for your prompt posting Brian!… You Rock!
Question:…Wondering why the UC College Prep folks did not apply?
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ditto – nice info!
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