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Name: What are Open Textbooks?
ID: m15226
Language: English (en)
Summary: An overview of what open textbooks are, how they are created, and how you can participate.
Subject: Social Sciences
Keywords: course, courses, curriculum, iskme, learning, lecture notes, lectures, oercommons, oer commons, oer portal, open education, open educational resources, open education content, open education portal, open source, open source education, open textbook, syllabi, teacher, teaching, textbook
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: ISKME (amee@iskme.org)
Copyright Holders: ISKME (amee@iskme.org)
Maintainers: Patricia Delich (pdelich@elearningnetworks.com), Amee Godwin (amee@iskme.org), Lisa Petrides (lisa@iskme.org), Cynthia Jimes (cynthia@iskme.org)
Latest version: 1.7 (history)
First publication date: Sep 20, 2007 7:32 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Feb 26, 2009 2:33 pm US/Central
Module XML: m15226_1.7.cnxml

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Version: 1.7 Feb 26, 2009 2:33 pm US/Central by Amee Godwin
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Version: 1.6 Feb 8, 2008 4:05 pm US/Central by Amee Godwin
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Version: 1.5 Feb 8, 2008 3:51 pm US/Central by Amee Godwin
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Version: 1.4 Oct 11, 2007 4:45 pm GMT-5 by Patricia Delich
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Version: 1.3 Oct 11, 2007 3:59 pm GMT-5 by Patricia Delich
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Version: 1.2 Oct 10, 2007 8:18 pm GMT-5 by Patricia Delich
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Version: 1.1 Oct 9, 2007 12:57 pm GMT-5 by Patricia Delich
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