Awesome list of free math books

Awesome list of free math books | Education IT | ZDNet.com

I know, I know, this hardly constitutes light reading over Spring Break. However, e-booksdirectory.com features an incredibly useful list of 260 freely downloadable electronic books (largely in PDF) that could drive entire courses or act as much-need supplements to a standard textbook.

The books are primarily college-level texts, but many could serve graduate students or high school students. High school students in particular looking to extend their studies, prepare for specific college coursework, or engage in independent study for which their schools may not have a textbook could especially benefit from these texts. Many of the books would also serve as useful reference tools for high school mathematics and computer science teachers who want to ensure that their course content is adequately rigorous for college preparation.

BGSU's Huber honored for online textbook

Here is nice article about one of BGSU's own faculty creating and teaching from an e-book. I like that Dr. Huber not only recognizes the value in saving paper and the students money, but also that the e-book platform offers a more interactive experience with the material. Huber says, "The material in an animal behavior class is highly visual by its very nature and loses much of its student appeal when it gets reduced to simple lines in a printed textbook. "The same idea can be applied to teaching fully online courses as well. There are so many online tools available to engage students in the material that teaching online, when done right, can be an extremely affective means of education.

Creating a free, online textbook used by students in his Animal Behavior class has earned Dr. Robert Huber, a professor of biology at Bowling Green State University, one of the inaugural 10 Faculty Innovator Awards from the University System of Ohio (USO).
Huber and his fellow recipients were honored March 24 in Columbus, where they received the $1,000 cash award for using technological innovation to reduce the cost of textbooks to students. They were recognized by Gov. Ted Strickland and the Ohio House and Senate, as well as by Eric Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.
In addition to the textbook posted at Wikibooks, Huber "provides additional course material at no cost to students, including online media and lecture-note archives," the USO pointed out in its commendation... read entire story

Free Book Opportunity!

Everyone loves free stuff - so how about a free copy of The New Media Frontier, by John Mark Reynolds and Roger Overton. I contributed to the book by co-writing chapter 5 on podcasting and new media. Crossway, the publisher, will be sending a free copy of the book to the first 30 people who agree to post a review on their blog or Facebook page. Here are the details:

1. Send an email to marketing@crossway.org with the subject "New Media Frontier Giveaway" with your name, mailing address, and blog address.
   
2. Crossway will send you a shiny new copy of The New Media Frontier.
   
3. Read the book and post a review on either a blog or your Facebook profile so all your friends can see it by October 31st, 2008.
   
4. Cross-post your review on Amazon.com