Textbooks

Question: Are traditional textbooks still necessary, relevant, and important?
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[|//New York Times// article about schools replacing textbooks with IPads]. A vision of 21st century textbooks - []

Examples of Free and Open Source Textbooks
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[|Flatworld] [|Textbook Revolution] [|CK12] Open source "flexbooks," correlated to state standards [|California Open Source Textbook Project] [|Multimedia Educational Resource] [|ALISON and Global Education]