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ONLINE TEXTBOOKS
Michelle Storrusten
States Using K12 Digital Content California’s Digital Textbook Initiative Vail, AZ Beyond Textbooks Initiative Oshkosh Seeking Shift to Digital Texts New iPad
app for digital textbooks excites Clark County schools
Digital Textbooks Gaining Traction in the States
How to Find Online Textbooks Google Scholar
Advanced search options with Google. “bookname” filetype:pdf
Visit current textbook publisher’s website.
Textbook Publishers Course
Technology CourseSmart Glencoe Harcourt Holt McDougal Holt Rinehart
Winston (HRW)
Houghton-Mifflin John Wiley &
Sons McDougal Littell McGraw-Hill Pearson Shelly Cashman
Free Online Textbooks CK12.org Flexbooks – K12 standards
aligned Open Educational Resources Consortiu
m – Open textbooks
OER Consortium – Free but copyrighted. MERLOT – Multimedia Educational
Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Worldwide Center of Mathematics – also has free lectures to accompany free PDF books.
California Learning Resource Network – Digital Textbook Initiative
Free High School Science Texts – Setting science education free in South Africa.
Curriki.org – K12 Open Curricula Community
BookBoon.com – Download free textbooks.
FlatWorldKnowledge.com – Fully editable, free.
TextbookRevolution.org – Student-run site
FreeTechBooks.com – computer science and programming
The Online Books Page – hosted at the University of Pennsylvania
OpenCoursewareConsortium – MIT.edu Monterey Institute for Technology and E
ducation – National Repository of Online Courses
Online Course Content Teacher-collected or teacher-created
resources. Adaptable content. Not limited to a textbook or ebook
alone. Can use audio, video, online articles, and other digital tools and resources.
Article on Open Textbook Adoption.
Open Source Defined“pertaining to or denoting a product or system whose origins, formula, design, etc., are freely accessible to the public.”
Dictionary.com, June 2011
Public Domain DefinedThe term “public domain” refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws.There are four common ways that works arrive in the public domain: the copyright has expired the copyright owner failed to follow copyright renewal
rules the copyright owner deliberately places it in the public
domain, known as “dedication,” or copyright law does not protect this type of work.
From FairUse.Stanford.edu, June 2011
Why the Push for Open Source Books?
Books are easily one of the biggest expenses in the classroom.
College textbooks cost hundreds of dollars per semester.
Hardcopy books become outdated as new information comes out.
Hardcopy books can be lost or easily damaged.
Open source course content can be customized to meet standards.
Free eBook Collections The Amazon Kindle Store has
Limited-time Promotional Offers or Kindle Popular Classics. (Use Kindle for PC app.)
Internet Archive at Archive.org. (Now Community Books.)
OpenLibrary.org Project Gutenberg.org ManyBooks.net
More Free eBook ResourceseReader News Today (free and paid ebooks – all topics)
Free Nook Books at Barnes & Noble.com
Free eBooks at Google Play
Direct Amazon LinksBest Selling Amazon Books (free and paid) – can narrow down by topic.Best Selling Education Books at Amazon (free and paid)Kindle e-Textbooks (can sort by topic and then price)CK-12 Flexbooks for Kindle
eBook Readers for PCKindle for PC (Amazon)
Nook for PC (Barnes & Noble)
Sony Reader for PC or Mac
Adobe PDF Reader
eReader Apps Kindle Nook iBooks Stanza
Kobo Google Books Bluefire Reader Ibis Reader Sony Reader
Free/Cheap Hardcopy BooksPaperBackSwap.com
BookMooch.com These two sites exist so you can trade
books by either posting your own books or buying credits. Many schools use these sites to obtain classroom reading or library books.
I found several textbooks for grad school on PBS, so essentially free with trade.
Podcasts National Public Radio podcast directory PodcastDirectory.com DigitalPodcast.com iTunes.com podcast directory List of free academic podcasts from
Productivity 501 blog. 100 Free Podcasts from the Best
Colleges in the World.
Great Falls Public Library We’re familiar with using the library to
borrow hardcopy books for free. However, the local library is also a
great place to borrow ebooks and audio books for free. These can be downloaded to a computer, eReader or iPod/MP3 player.
MontanaLibrary2Go.org
Described as “The best free cultural & educational media on the web,” OpenCulture.com has free audio books, as well as links to free online courses, language lessons, movies and ebooks.
LibriVox.org is described as “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.”
Project Gutenberg.org also has free audio books.
StoryNory.com has free audio books for kids.
Free Audio Books
Free Classic Audio Books: Many classic stories here (Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, etc.).
Podiobooks is an interesting way to get audio books; they offer complete books in episodic form so you can get just a chapter at a time via RSS or by iTunes; in addition, you can simply click and listen to a story online.
AudioBooksForFree is a large site that offers hundreds of audio books for free download; the only hitch is that their books and lectures come in small files (you can download a book all at once for a fee).
ThoughtAudio has a good selection of classic audio books available for free download.
Taken from “The Best Sites for Free Audio Books Online” By Wendy Boswell, About.com, June 2011
Learn Out Loud is a gigantic collection of free audio books, lectures, and educational podcasts. One of the best resources for free audio books.
Lit2Go: from the Florida Educational Technology Clearinghouse, a collection of stories and poems in audio book format.
BooksShouldBeFree gives you a dozen plus categories to choose free audio books from, anything from Anthropology to War.
Taken from “The Best Sites for Free Audio Books Online” By Wendy Boswell, About.com, June 2011
Foreign Resources NLN Materials (U.K.) Learning Space by Open University
(U.K.) World Lecture Hall by University of
Texas at Austin OpenCourseWare by United Nations
University
