{"id":367,"date":"2011-01-13T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/open-education-resources-free-math-textbooks\/"},"modified":"2011-01-13T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T00:02:00","slug":"open-education-resources-free-math-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/open-education-resources-free-math-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Education Resources &#8211; Free Math Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"clear: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Infinitesimal_Calculus_5.png\" style=\"clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Infinitesimal Calculus 5\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/ae\/Infinitesimal_Calculus_5.png\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;\" width=\"190\" \/><\/a><span style=\"clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 150px;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Infinitesimal_Calculus_5.png\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/span>Cable Green was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education in an article called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/State-of-Washington-to-Offer\/125887\/\">State of Washington to Offer Online Materials as Texts<\/a>&#8221; by Martha Ann Overland. I loved the article because it promotes all of the things I am so excited about in education right now: free, openly licensed textbooks, open education resources, and the creation of communities that are creating freely accessible learning materials. It is a well-written and balanced article that discusses the promise and possibilities of OER as well as the problems<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">I was surprised to see that they were having problems finding math resources: &#8220;During a recent meeting of mathematics professors and librarians who are designing the courseware for Washington&#8217;s algebra, precalculus, and statistics courses, it was clear that no one was completely satisfied with what could be found online.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">I work at College of the Redwoods where the Math department has created a couple of textbooks and I received an email from David Nelson who is the project manager for the Florida Distance Learning Consortium to let me know about the free pre-algebra textbooks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitz-zeager.com\/Free_College_Algebra_Book_Download.html\">the Stitz-Zeager website<\/a>&nbsp;(this looks like an excellent collection).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">There is also a free webinar happening on Thurs. Jan. 13th on a free online math textbook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/goog_1531394797\">The Stitz-Zeager Open Access Precalculus Project<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">There are links to College of the Redwoods open math textbooks in this post here:<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cain.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/good-teaching-is-accessible-and-open.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">http:\/\/cain.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/good-teaching-is-accessible-and-open.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2013373872_textbooks08m.html?syndication=rss\">Washington&#8217;s 2-year colleges out to beat high cost of textbooks<\/a> (seattletimes.nwsource.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/post\/54501\/rd\">What role does technology have in shaping a new future in education?<\/a> (downes.ca)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/new_mit_opencourseware_initiative_aims_to_improve.php\">New MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative Aims to Improve Independent Online Learning<\/a> (readwriteweb.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ictelt.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/oer-pie-in-sky-or-meaningful-reality.html\">OER: Pie in the sky or meaningful reality?<\/a> (ictelt.blogspot.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=d548a0b6-cfd1-483b-9a91-bcd587c2c8a2\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via WikipediaCable Green was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education in an article called &#8220;State of Washington to Offer Online Materials as Texts&#8221; by Martha Ann Overland. I loved the article because it promotes all of the things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/open-education-resources-free-math-textbooks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[834,39,87,283,246],"tags":[837],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calculus","category-oer","category-open-educational-resources","category-opentextbooks","category-textbooks","tag-precalculus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}