One step closer to reasonably priced college eTextbooks? DynamicBooks and College Open Textbooks partner to provide twenty buck books…

PRWeb - DynamicBooks and College Open Textbooks Partner to Make Open Textbooks Easy to Edit and Customizable

“DynamicBooks and College Open Textbooks announced today an agreement by which College Open Textbooks will facilitate identifying high quality, peer reviewed open textbook titles to be offered on the DynamicBooks online interactive textbook platform. The DynamicBooks platform enables instructors to customize and personalize textbooks that are delivered to the instructor’s students using an advanced reader and annotation tool that can be used from most computing devices.

The goal of both DynamicBooks and College Open Textbooks is to make open textbooks easy to edit, personalize, update and expand. Twenty-seven open textbooks from varied disciplines including history, science, business and mathematics will be available from the DynamicBooks platform beginning in January 2011 with more titles planned throughout 2011. Students will pay a $20 per term fee that enables them to highlight, annotate, search, print page-by-page and easily navigate through their customized DynamicBooks.

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Using the DynamicBooks editing tool, instructors can revise content, add or delete chapters or sections and include audio, video and course notes to make the textbooks more current and more relevant for their students. Students can access DynamicBooks online, download the books to their computer, print up to ten pages at a time. Printed, bound versions are also available for student purchase. Instead of copyright, all rights reserved, these textbooks are copyrighted with Creative Commons, GFDL, and customized open licenses that mean the textbooks can be freely shared and modified.

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I like how both the student and instructor have edit/annotation/customization capabilities. With a son going to college in a couple years I find this a cool movement. I hope it catches on…

 

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