The site provides “Remixable textbooks by expert authors. Free online and affordable offline”.
Have you heard about this? Remixable free online textbooks? Check out the introductory video:
Seems like a pretty awesome idea to me, yet there are only a couple dozen books published or in development on the site. The site is quite new though.
Flatworld Knowledge is another technology that it’s going to be interesting to watch, to see how it evolves, how quickly it is adopted, whether it really takes hold or not. I for one hope it sticks!
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About K. Walsh
Kelly Walsh is CIO at The College of Westchester in White Plains, NY and is the founder and author of EmergingEdTech.com. As an education technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author and online educator, and his latest eBook, "iPads in Education: Implementations, Apps, & Insights" is available for sale in the iBookstore. In his spare time, he records and performs original and cover songs (look for "K. Walsh" on iTunes or Amazon.com or check out his original song videos on here on YouTube ).
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