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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