Open Source Textbooks: A New Paradigm for the Publication of Textbooks.
This work exposes a new paradigm for the creation and publication of textbooks: Open Source. The phrase Open Source is borrowed from the computer software industry; open source software is software which has been developed by many collaborators using the internet to produce a final product. The cont...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 59 - 66 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2013
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