Professors Experiment With Online “Open Textbooks”

“Colleges and individual faculty members continue to experiment with putting course information and material online, and ‘open textbooks’ typically are licensed to allow users to download, share and alter the content as they see fit, so long as their purposes aren’t commercial and they credit the author for the original material. This allows instructors to customize e-textbooks and offer them to students for free online or as low-cost printed versions.”