TAMU’s Prof’s Open Textbook Solution
September 1, 2009Texas A&M Oceanography professor, Robert Stewart, makes his three textbooks available for free online. In fact, he invites others to contribute to his textbooks. His reasons are:
- timeliness
- cost
- quality control
- professional recognition
- multimedia material cannot be printed
Find out more details from his article titled “Some Thoughts on Free Textbooks” published in Educause Review.
Professor Stewart’s open textbooks include:
- Introduction to Physical Oceanography
- Environmental Science in the 21st Century
- Our Ocean Planet Oceanography in the 21st Century
