More Coverage on Open College Textbook Act

Three new articles, among many, on the Open College Textbook Act. First, Christopher Dawson at ZDNet, and second Meghan Bohn at New Media Rights. “Timothy” at Slashdot has also posted a story. If you have found notable articles or commentary on the act, please add them in the comments.

The open textbook movement is incredibly important to the creation of relevant, rigorous, standards-based educational content. Earlier this week, I downloaded an open physics text to a Sony Reader that is competitive with any of the introductory texts I’ve used or evaluated to teach physics (and, for that matter, to learn physics when I took my first class in high school).

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