Creative Commons is getting more and more attention as a means by which we can free ourselves from those publishers that are charging us ridicous amounts of money for their journals and for their educational content.
For example, read the article The Case for Creative Commons Textbooks on the very informative website by CETIS.
It is stipulated that University of California students paid an average of $898 per year on new and used textbooks in 2003. The author (Fred M. Beshears, U.C. Berkeley) argues that in a best case scenario textbook costs can be reduced to $3.25 per year!
That gives us something to think about!
14 June 2005
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Just an example of a sort of basic textbook that we could create together.
It is in German, but makes use of Flickr.com. Just go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/baic/ where you can find some pictures that apparantly could be (or will be or have been) used for a textbook for printer technicians.... Very nice. Sehr gut.
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