Share|Submitted by Flat World Blogger on Tue, 10/04/2011 – 10:44am. We love red carpet season. We’ll admit it.   We were just notified that educators are being asked to take one minute and nominate their favorite products for the 2012 Ed-Tech Reader’s Choice Awards. If you’re a fan of saving college students millions, gaining more control of...

Share|Steve Kolowich at Inside Higher Ed has asked the perennial question: Could this be the year higher education finally embraces the e-book? Looking at the release of the iPad, the viral rise of textbook rentals, and models such as ours, he has put together a high level map of the current state of affairs in terms of eBooks. Probably worth noting: Unlike other...

Share|Open Content continues to extend its reach. Today, Creative Commons has announced their Catalyst Campaign to raise seed funding for projects around the world devoted to increasing access and openness. A few years back, Flat World chose CC licensing to provide the framework by which we deliver multi-format remixable content, and the result was almost immediate...

Share| An article/blog post by Sanford Forte graces the webpages of RedHat’s opensource.com this week. Grab a cup of coffee, and walk through the current state of affairs driving models like Flat World’s to emerge in the space of textbook publishing with Sanford. Then, weigh in on the use of open licensing to change the way educational content is...

Share|No one is completely satisfied with textbooks. Not even the great textbooks. There’s always something you would change. Something you would do differently. Textbooks work when they are convenient. Certainly you can teach your course without one, but why not have something to help carry the teaching load? Let your textbook cover the basics so that you can...