Saylor Foundation Awards Prizes To Free College Textbooks - Slashdot

The Saylor Foundation provides “a free and open collection of college level courses” to meet their mission of making education “freely available to all.” As noted by Slashdot, "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."