- Technology makes preparation and distribution of textbooks easy, however innovations in editing and peer review still lag.
- Mathematicians eager to take advantage of new technologies have developed many fine textbooks available for free on the Internet.
- These authors often do not get "credit'' for this work because it is not peer reviewed, indeed, the author may have no idea how widely used the text actually is or how well-received it might be.
- Textbook adopters have no way of evaluating the quality of open source textbooks and hence have a difficult time convincing their institutions to adopt.
- Crowd sourcing and open source publication are growing phenomena. Harnessing these resources is not only smart, but imperative.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Why Open Source Math Textbooks?
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