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The Open Textbook Library

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 13:23:03 +0100

Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

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Manuel

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 13:35:05 +0100

Thanks!

Jake Moomaw

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 16:33:44 +0100

The school I am going to only uses Open Education textbooks. The Python book for Programming fundamentals was incredible, but the Introduction to Statistics textbook has been... let's be charitable and just say lacking. The class itself has been great, but they've messed with the traditional pedagogy in ways that I'm baffled by.

Philipp

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 20:59:51 +0100

Thank you a lot! Quite a nice collection.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:02:25 +0100

I just wanted to say thank you, @Jake Moomaw . I have read all of A Byte of Python https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/a-byte-of-python , which I found to have particularly clear explanations in those areas where those new to programming often struggle, regardless of programming language.

The book is the opposite of this explanation on modern Mathematics "explained" by Norwegian comedian Trond Kirkvaag jr. with the often heard "and then we immediately understand that..."

Trond Kirkvaag - Mattelæreren 68-74

RIP Trond, vi vil savne deg! Trond Kirkvaag er mattelæreren som viser Norge hvordan den moderne matematikken skal regnes ut. Syns du det er morsomt, kjøp dvd...

Jake Moomaw

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:02:47 +0100 last edited: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:04:05 +0100

@Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum), I'll have to check that book out, but the text that we used was Think Python 2 from Green Tea Press. They even make the LaTeX source available. Sorry that I wasn't a bit more informative in that last post.

UoPeople uses nothing but freely available texts, but they come from a large number of sources. The textbook for College Algebra is on the UMN site. Programming 1 uses Introduction to Programming Using Java from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The Introduction to Statistics text was specifically written for UoPeople. I thought that it was openly available, but in trying to access it without being logged in, I found that it is not. Honestly, it is no great loss. That book was pretty much rubbish. If you want to see more, the syllabus repository is open to everyone.

Sorry I implied that the UMN repository was the source of all of my textbooks.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 06:31:55 +0100

Thanks, there are also other Python books on Open Textbooks.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 08:18:27 +0100 last edited: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 08:21:37 +0100

For anyone else puzzled by the title Think Python 2 when Python 3 has been out for years, 2 refers to the second edition of the book, and it uses Python 3. The book has a number of exercises at the end of each chapter.

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Sun, 13 Jan 2019 16:28:23 +0100

1,300 Free Online Courses from Top Universities (openculture)

Get 1,300 free online courses from the world's leading universities -- Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford and more. You can download these audio & video courses (often from iTunes, YouTube, or university web sites) straight to your computer or mp3 player. Over 45,000 hours of free audio & video lectures, await you now.

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Sun, 13 Jan 2019 16:33:27 +0100

200 Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection (openculture)

Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 200 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions.

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Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:15:28 +0100

Bookshelf

Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Search, read, and discover.

For example:

Know Your Chances

The goal of this book is to help you better understand health information by teaching you about the numbers behind the messages—the medical statistics on which the claims are based. The book will also familiarize you with risk charts, which are designed to help you put your health concerns in perspective. By learning to understand the numbers and knowing what questions to ask, you’ll be able to see through the hype and find the credible information—if any—that remains.

Smart Health Choices

This book aims to help consumers and practitioners develop the skills to assess health advice – and hopefully to make decisions that will improve the quality of their care. For some people, making better-informed decisions could be life saving. We hope that it will be useful if you are struggling to come to terms with an illness or injury, and the best ways of managing it. Or you may simply want to lead a healthier life, and may be wondering how to make sense of the often conflicting flood of health information that deluges us every day, through the media, and from our friends and health practitioners

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Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:58:47 +0200 last edited: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:01:17 +0200

Not "open" but now free online The Merck Manual (Professional Version)

MSD Manual (Professional Version)

thanks for sharing @Dr. Cassone
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Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (Wikipedia)

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Wed, 29 May 2019 13:40:54 +0200

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things of beauty
The Public Domain Review is a constant source of joy and interest. Enjoy, as I did today, with my morning coffee:

Plants and Their Application to Ornament (1896).

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Sat, 05 Oct 2019 23:42:20 +0200

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1,600+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in October: Enroll Today (2019, openculture.com)
Complete list of October MOOCs

Here's one tip to keep in mind: If you want to take a course for free, select the "Full Course, No Certificate" or "Audit" option when you enroll. If you would like an official certificate documenting that you have successfully completed the course, you will need to pay a fee.

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Massive open online course (Wikipedia)

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Sun, 06 Oct 2019 09:01:16 +0200

From the list of NEW ENTRY

Tools for Podcasting (2019, opentextbooks)

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