Saylor Foundation Awards Prizes To Free College Textbooks 75
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from the price-is-right dept.
from the price-is-right dept.
Brad Lucier writes "The Saylor Foundation has a vision: Free and open materials for a complete undergraduate university education. To that end, they've announced the first winners in their Open Textbook Challenge: Four textbooks were relicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY 3.0) Unported license, the most open of the CC licenses, and in return the authors were awarded a prize of $20,000 for each book. See the blog entries and the accompanying press releases for details. The second wave of submissions will be accepted until May 31, 2012."
Prerequisites (Score:1, Funny)
Do you have to be a graduate of the Khan Academy before taking college level course at Saylor.org, or can you skip ahead if you have a note from Sal Kahn?
Free? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Prizes Instead of Pay (Score:3, Funny)
As an IP discussion: when does the 'non-guaranteed pay' model work and when is it toxic?
Which ever way means that the Slashdotter gets free stuff.