Educational Technology

August 26, 2012

A “Social,” Free and Openly-Licensed Intro to Sociology Textbook

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

By Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed

Highlighter has announced that it’s partnering with the 20 Million Minds Foundation, a non-profit committed to finding ways to lower the cost of textbooks, to product a book for the upcoming Fall term – Introduction to Sociology. The textbook, created by OpenStax College and Rice University is free and openly licensed.  Highlighter and 20MM describe it as “the first student-faculty interactive textbook” insofar as it will offer these social highlighting, annotating, commenting and sharing features. The Highligher version of the textbook will also let professors place students into smaller study groups for easier social interaction and enables them to track students’ reading and note-taking progress within a topic or chapter.

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/hack-higher-education/social-free-and-openly-licensed-intro-sociology-textbook

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