Terry Anderson has announced Mobile Learning Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training, a new book about mobile learning from Athabasca University Press. The book covers a wide range of topics such as designing mobile learning objects and using mobile learning in international distance education programs. According to Terry Anderson, it is licensed BY-NC-ND and is available free as an ebook on the Athabasca University Press site.
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According York University Library (YUL) News, York U. is collaborating with the Internet Archive to upload books that are out of copyright. From the blog post:
We’re working with the Internet Archive to scan thousands of our pre-1923 books and get them on the web in high-quality digitized versions available for free to the entire world. More details to follow as this exciting project develops…
Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open Access News for the link.
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Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) highligted the publication of an article entitled “Redefining Open Books for the 21st Century” in the Community College Week Fall 2008 Technology Supplement. The paper is authored by Eric Frank and David Wiley, and emphasizes how a for-profit model can help bring down prices of textbooks.
