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By the following year, TCI planned to update the book. [2] [3] The Jewish Telegraphic Agency noted the Council on Islamic Education and the Islamist, anti-Israel scholar Ayad Al-Qazzaz both consulted on the creation of History Alive!, while the Jewish community had failed to present a similarly unified review of textbooks. [4]
LibreTexts' current primary support is from the 2018 Open Textbook Pilot Program award from the Department of Education Organization Act. [7] [10] [5] [11] FIPSE [12] Other funding comes from the University of California Davis, the University of California Davis Library, [5] and the California State University System both through MERLOT and its Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) program.
An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost.
History Teacher 48.4 (2015): 609-640. online; Ragland, Rachel G. and Kelly A. Woestman, eds., The Teaching American History Project: Lessons for History Educators and Historians (2009) excerpts; Stein, Alex. "The teaching American history program: An introduction and overview." History Teacher 36.2 (2003): 178-185. online
Saudi Arabia started a project in 2011 to digitize all text books other than Math and Science. [citation needed] The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) and the U.S. State Department launched an Open Book Project in 2013, supporting "the creation of Arabic-language open educational resources (OERs)". [166]
A series of reviews in 2000–2001 in The Textbook Letter, a publication of the Textbook League, criticized various aspects of the first two books of A History of US. In a review of volume 2, Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600–1740, Alice Whealey noted many claims regarding the history of Western civilization as erroneous, focusing on ...
Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010. Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
Those who wish to adopt the textbooks are required to send a request to NCERT, upon which soft copies of the books are received. The material is press-ready and may be printed by paying a 5% royalty, and by acknowledging NCERT. [11] The textbooks are in color-print and are among the least expensive books in Indian book stores. [11]