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lytefoot: from-the-west-meadow: dav3harley: studyblr-bri: englishlit-chic: kaciart: stanfordetc: ohthekorean: gogomrbrown: https://openstaxcollege.org FUCK CAPITALISM! This didn’t cost tax payers anything. You don’t need to be a governing body with a police force to do decent things. stanfordetc freedomofscreech THANK Just going to pop this here for you guys. Important ☝️ REBLOGGING THE FUCK OUTTA THIS @cosmic-rumpus It’s actually/now https://openstax.org/. Yo, please don’t give the Gates foundation credit for this! The textbooks at openstax are assembled out of preexisting Open Educational Resources (OER), often IMHO not very well. (OpenStax Calculus is passible, though filled with minor errors, especially in the homework sets–exercises are often inappropriate for the section in which they are included, for example, integrals which require techniques not yet taught. OpenStax Intermediate Algebra is entirely incoherent, frequently making use of complex concepts several chapters before they’re introduced.) A grant from the Gates foundation pays for their curation and and the hosting. You should also be aware that many of the resources, especially the online homework systems, are monetized. Check out the Open Textbook Store (http://www.opentextbookstore.com/) for a variety of sources–these are almost all math textbooks, many of which have free online homework systems as well. Also check out CK12 (https://www.ck12.org/), an OER site focused on K-12, but often hosting texts suitable for intro-level college classes as well. In general, google “OER” plus whatever subject interests you, and you’ll probably find a decent open text and related resources. Unfortunately, at this point you need a content area expert to decide whether the text itself is any good–in other words, these are still best used with a teacher. And please, please don’t credit the Gates foundation with creating OER. These are materials created by educators to help our students. The Gates foundation has provided some funding–most of the time, we make these things for free because we want them to be available, and had been doing so for years before the Gates foundation noticed and jumped on the band wagon. Funding from Gates foundation grants does not go to the people who actually create the materials. -- source link