Does anyone know if Os is thinking about adding in a section where you can go to look at textbooks that help you practice work during the summer so you don't forget what you already learned? I believe that could be a huge improvement to OpenStudy.

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pooja195 · Answer

I think thats what google is for :/

anonymous · Answer

I know but my phone doesn't allow me to access google sometimes so i use OpenStudy but it hard to get what you need from people on here when your confused as well, its just a suggestion really. @pooja195

anonymous · Answer

And google isn't always reliable either..

anonymous · Answer

mostly for textbooks anyway.

anonymous · Answer

My question was do you know if they are? @pooja195

pooja195 · Answer

i dont think so.....sorry

anonymous · Answer

Ok thank you anyway.

e.mccormick · Answer

Making a textbook is no small task.  Doing it wrong is disasterous.  So asking OS to hire people to do a proper textbooks is a bit of a stretch.

There are quality, free, online textbooks out there.  Why not use one of those.  Then, any questions on the content you can ask on OS.  For example, OpenStax College makes a number of good books.  Pooja can attest to how good the biology one is.  But she still asked questions here about biology.

jaynator495 · Answer

short answer no, however i have been thinking about adding some school textbooks to my extension to reference...



$\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}$ @e.mccormick
Making a textbook is no small task.  Doing it wrong is disasterous.  So asking OS to hire people to do a proper textbooks is a bit of a stretch.

There are quality, free, online textbooks out there.  Why not use one of those.  Then, any questions on the content you can ask on OS.  For example, OpenStax College makes a number of good books.  Pooja can attest to how good the biology one is.  But she still asked questions here about biology.
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what you could do with these is make a menu to look at these... (such as k12 books) and reference them... which is what ive been planning to do for a while x'D

infact i had a dream about successfully doing that... man the dreams i have >_>

anonymous · Answer

Thank you ^ i was asking if they were considering it and you answered my question. @Jaynator495

e.mccormick · Answer

k12 uses their own login system to look at thier books, which would make it harder to include in OS.

e.mccormick · Answer

Or CK-12, rather. Their whole flexbook thing is tied into that. http://www.ck12.org

anonymous · Answer

Nice ^ @e.mccormick

e.mccormick · Answer

And here are the OpenStax books: https://www.openstaxcollege.org/students They are excellent books that go through the full peer review process. They are trying to make general educatio books for free and have covered most of the widely used topics.

jaynator495 · Answer

$\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}$ @e.mccormick
k12 uses their own login system to look at thier books, which would make it harder to include in OS.
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Not true, after logged in... you can get the  textbooks .txt files, after that you do not need to be logged in...

jaynator495 · Answer

i go to k12 x'D

anonymous · Answer

It would be easier for me and most of other people on here to actually "study" on here in the summer because i'm on here literally everyday.

e.mccormick · Answer

I am taking about CK-12, which does free books... as opposed to K-12, which has books for their students.  I do not think K-12 opens theirs to the world.

e.mccormick · Answer

KAKES1967, they have looked at doing question banks and tutorials a number of times.  Never quite got off the ground.

anonymous · Answer

Tutorials is definetely needed in OS.