Open Source Education Resources

This was written up in a magazine I receive for FREE.YES FREE.

The magazine is "edutopia" It's "The George Lucas Educational Foundation" www.edutopia.org
All the latest info about schools, education and how technology is and will be used.

This was the article:
"Toss The Traditional Textbook" Open Source Education Resources Can Replace Stale Old Volumes. by Grace Rubenstein.

check this site out>>>> http://cnx.org

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.

Connexions is internationally focused, interdisciplinary, and grassroots organized. More than one million people from 157 countries are tapping into the 3544 modules and 183 courses developed by a worldwide community of authors in fields ranging from computer science to music and from mathematics to biodiversity. In addition to modules written in English, you can find modules written in Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai.

Ricardo von Borries is using Connexions to bring digital signal processing content to engineering students in Latin America. Ricardo, an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas as El Paso (UTEP), is leading a team that is translating two digital signal processing (DSP) Connexions courses from English to Spanish.

http://cnx.org