Digital Textbook Sources

Digital Textbook Sources for Education Practitioners

Following on from my last post, today is a "Heads-Up" for some popular platforms that provide open digital textbooks. 

Textbooks are arranged into different categories and content areas.
Some of the textbooks are available for free download in various formats others can only be read on-line.
Five worth a closer look are...

• Bookboon - https://bookboon.com/ - has published more than 1,000 free textbooks for students. These textbooks can be downloaded in PDF format without prior registration.
• Open Education Resources (OER) Commons - https://www.oercommons.org/ - is a platform that provides open access to a wide variety of open educational resources that are either in the public domain or are licensed under Creative Commons.
  These resources include things such as :
• full courses,
• course materials,
• modules,
• textbooks,
• streaming videos,
• tests,
• software,
  ...and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
• Open Textbook Library - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ -  provides a growing catalogue of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. It's worth exploring the library’s books to see if an open textbook fits your course’s, and/or learners’, needs. 
• TextBookGo - textbookgo.com/ is a source for free etextbooks.
  TextBookGo provides free digital textbooks from many sources and for many courses! TextBookGo offers free etextbooks for many subject categories and for all tablet and digital textbook viewing devices. And
• Wikibooks - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page - offers an open content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.
  It has over 2000 books and other educational materials that can be browsed by...
• subject,
• complettion status or
• reading level.

If you give any of these Digital Textbook Sources a try or have already used any of them, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.

Thank you.