Timeline for What are the major obstacles to crowdsourcing a competitive, free calculus text?
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| Mar 29, 2015 at 22:08 | comment | added | user507 | I don't understand why the question asks about crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is not the same as open-source. | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 17:50 | answer | added | schremmer | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 25, 2015 at 15:42 | comment | added | Chris Cunningham | See also the discussion at matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1479/… | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 23:12 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Robert Ghrist's Coursera course Calculus: Single Variable is a notable alternative. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 22:25 | answer | added | Idempotent | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 17:54 | vote | accept | Brian Rushton | ||
| Mar 22, 2015 at 17:33 | comment | added | Jessica B | @JoeTaxpayer I meant I couldn't see a link posted here, not that I couldn't find the link on the page I posted. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 15:00 | comment | added | Sue VanHattum♦ | High quality is not the only thing affecting widespread use. If you create a textbook that is different in any significant way from the mainstream texts, I doubt it will get widespread adoption. (I'd like to write a textbook in which the limits chapter comes later, and is handled differently. It would be great if everyone saw the value of this, but I won't be holding my breath.) | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 18:32 | answer | added | Jim Hefferon | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | littleO | Gilbert Strang's calculus textbook is free online. Not open source (I believe), but at least it's free. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 17:36 | comment | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica | @JessicaB - try aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 10:08 | comment | added | Jessica B | I can't see a link to these: aimath.org/textbooks | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:22 | answer | added | Chris C | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:13 | comment | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica | Is the CK calculus book (and the other calc books in the series) not enough? Why reinvent the wheel? | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 17:43 | comment | added | emory | I wouldn't know. What makes the commercial calculus textbook high quality? | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 16:37 | comment | added | Chris C | My university is in the process of doing this. I'll dig into it a little and get back. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 16:27 | history | asked | Brian Rushton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |