ConneXions CNXOpen Source Textbooks

SEAN ANDREWS

What is Open Source?

• Publically Accessible• Not Privately Owned• Can be Copied, Learned from, Altered, Shared, and

Remixed for free• Promotes Collaboration and Sharing• Original Source Code kept in tack to give credit to

original creator• Examples: Wikipedia, Mozilla Firefox, VLC media

player, WordPress, Audacity, GIMP, Notepad, Blender, Linux

ConneXions• CNX.org• Search Subjects• Interact with Material• Download as PDF (sometimes other formats)• Option to Donate• Some Textbook can be Printed and Bought at a

Cheaper Rate• Add Your Own Content!

Concerns

• How Can we Trust that the Information is Accurate?• Do we truly trust any information?• Important to always use a critical eye

• Lenses are groups of people who carefully check content for quality• Much like Wikipedia the more people

who help check quality the better the results

• Also the fact that it is not privately owned means that many ideas that previously did not have a forum can now come forward

• The power of Collaborative Knowledge is Emerging

Let’s Explore!• Sign up at

CNX.org

Step 1

• Search Topics of Interest

Step 2 • Share

what you find

• Create Lens?Step

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