http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:31:58 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:31:58 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=479642 The CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students. CSU students typically pay over $800 per year for their books. By reducing their expenses, we believe we can provide better access to a quality CSU learning experience. We are launching this campaign in 2010 and will be continuously improving the services to CSU faculty and students each semester. The Affordable Learning Solutions website is designed to:• Make it easy for faculty, staff, and students to find no/low cost course content that can substitute for more costly textbooks• Enable faculty to be recognized for their efforts in reducing costs for students• Share practices for using no/low cost digital content in CSU courses• Support campuses in customizing their strategies to enable affordable learning solutions http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=616851 ״Kno delivers the same textbooks students are used to, only better. With over 70 amazing features, Kno goes to work for you.Some reasons why studying just got better:* Search: Your textbooks with a search engine* Organize: Import PDFs + Textbooks all-in-one place and organize it as you wish* Journal: Your very own Cliffnotes are automatically created from your highlights, sticky notes, bookmarks and anything else you do.* Pen: Mark your textbook like you’ve never done it before* Dropbox: Connect directly into your own folder to bring everything to your finger tips* Cloud: All your hard work is saved by Kno. Never have to worry about losing your notebook again* 3D: Yep, 3D animations in 2D books (only available in some books)* Smart Links: Capture, watch and link content from the web directly into your textbook (only available in some books)* Flashcards: Free flashcards from glossary terms for instant review (only available in some books)״The app is free http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=735831 This site has some links to free online textbooks. A couple were only samples, but the rest were full textbooks for free. Download and viewing options vary as these are links offsite. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=735824 ״Bookboon's free online textbooks for students are focused and to the point. They are all written by highly respected professors from top universities in the world and cover topics such as economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science.״Each book can be downloaded as a PDF from this site. All of these books are already cataloged separately in MERLOT. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=735854 This site has a large collection of free textbooks in a 21 different subjects and SAT prep . All are available for free download in PDF, MOBI or EPUB, after free registration. The PDFs load immediately. The MOBI abd EPUB are generated and a download link is emailed to you. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=735856 'The Community College Open Textbooks Collaborative is funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This collection of sixteen educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges, is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that support for authors opening their resources, and other services.'The formation of the College Open Textbooks coincides with the growing international interest in open educational resources and the need to move to open digital textbooks as a way to help financially distressed states such as California reduce the cost of public education.The focus of these efforts could save students millions of dollars by increasing the number of open high-quality textbooks available online as alternatives to expensive printed textbooks sold by publishers. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=735845 This site has a large collection of links to free texttbooks online in a good number of subjects. Links are offsite so download and viewing options vary. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=735868 'This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. Throughout this site, other terms are used to refer to a book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes.' http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=735890 This site has links to 160 free textbooks online in 19 different subjects. Download and viewing options vary as these are links to a variety of sites. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=503310 The WWW brings with it the opportunity for educators to share material on a global scale. Fully online courses have been made available by high quality educational institutions. These courses include not only lectures, by but syllabi, readings, videos, and supplementary materials. Concern about textbook prices has created an interest in open textbooks. They are available for free and may include the right to modify them. This Web page is for faculty who wish to take advantage of this type of resource. It briefly discusses such materials and provides links to both the resources and to dedicated search tools.