$20,000 Open Textbook Challenge from the Saylor Foundation - Creative Commons

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The Saylor Foundation has been known for organizing comprehensive curriculum for popular subject areas, and licensing the resources when they can under the CC Attribution license. Now with the launch of its Open Textbook Challenge, the Saylor Foundation aims to expand the amount of high-quality CC BY-licensed course materials by offering a $20,000 award for open textbooks! If a textbook is submitted and accepted for use with Saylor.org‘s course materials, then the copyright owners receive $20,000 while the referrer receives $250. Then the textbook is re-licensed (if not already) for free and open use under CC BY. For more information, visit http://www.saylor.org/OTC. The deadline is November 1, 2011...."

Link:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/28893

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new ru.ps oa.oer oa.funding oa.textbooks oa.books

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:44

Date published:

09/12/2011, 21:25