[Fedora-mktg-brazil] Connexions Takes Open Source Approach to Education Content

[David Barzilay]

With its new print-on-demand deal with Qoop, Connexions will allow 
students to purchase full or parts of 100 titles by the end of the year 
as the company completes development of its publishing platform. The 
effort will attempt to address the high cost of textbooks and the 
out-of-date information in used textbooks.

The Rice University open publishing project Connexions <http://cnx.org/> 
has scored an on-demand printing deal with Qoop, <http://www.qoop.com/> 
a content delivery company, aimed at making the educational site's 
materials more accessible and printable for educators and students.

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-- "to offer all of the world's knowledge for free in all of the world's 
languages," Connexions founder and Rice Electrical and Computer 
Engineering Professor Richard Baraniuk told LinuxInsider.

"Beyond textbooks, I think we are going to see an explosion in open 
access content across all scholarly publication forms, from textbooks to 
research monographs to journals, as more authors and scholars realize 
that their work will have far greater impact [as open access documents] 
and as more institutions and organizations realize the efficiencies to 
be gained," Baraniuk said.

[full article at: http://tinyurl.com/gnmjl]

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