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Saylor Foundation Awards Prizes To Free College Textbooks
Brad Lucier writes "The Saylor Foundation has a vision: Free and open materials for a complete undergraduate university education. To that end, they've announced the first winners in their Open Textbook Challenge: Four textbooks were relicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY 3.0) Unported license, the most open of the CC licenses, and in return the authors were awarded a prize of $20,000 for each book. See the blog entries and the accompanying press releases for details. The second wave of submissions will be accepted until May 31, 2012."
Do you have to be a graduate of the Khan Academy before taking college level course at Saylor.org, or can you skip ahead if you have a note from Sal Kahn?
Free textbooks?! This is madness; pure socialist madness. What's next? Free college tuition?
As an IP discussion: when does the 'non-guaranteed pay' model work and when is it toxic?
Which ever way means that the Slashdotter gets free stuff.