OpenStax

These people have good intentions.

The problem is that they don't manage to go critical because there's to way for students to create content, everything is manually curated.

You can't even publicly comment on the textbooks. Or at least Ciro Santilli hasn't found a way to do so. There is just a "submit suggestion" box.

This massive lost opportunity is even shown graphically at: cnx.org/about (archive) where there is a clear separation between:

Maybe this wasn't the case in their legacy website, legacy.cnx.org/content?legacy=true, but not sure, and they are retiring that now.

Thus, OurBigBook.com. License: CC BY! So we could re-use their stuff!

TODO what are the books written in?

Video 7. Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning by TED (2006) Source.

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