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Solution is Open Textbooks
by Jane Park UncategorizedIn January, the Student PIRGs launched the Make Textbooks Affordable campaign “to encourage faculty to adopt open educational resources in their classrooms” in the form of open textbooks and other classroom materials. Read ccLearn’s post on it from January. Recently, the Student PIRGs released their findings after examining digital textbooks and surveying 500 students in the…
italki Knowledge—Wikis for Language Learners
by Jane Park UncategorizedThe language learning website, italki.com, has been around as a social networking site since 2006. Starting in April, they decided to develop a new version of italki: italki Knowledge. italki Knowledge is made up of a bunch of wikis functioning as open textbooks—free for anyone to access and edit. The wikis span a multitude of…