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#:title "TextBook Commons" |
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(t "Bringing the public domain back to education") |
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(scaledpict "/home/wes/goal.png" 0.5)) |
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(scaledpict "./goal.png" 0.5)) |
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#:title "Problem" |
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(t "Let students do all of that in one step") |
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(t "E.g. a search for philosophy courses yields this") |
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(scaledpict "/home/wes/example.png" 0.5) |
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(t "Students can see any books available and links to better versions")) |
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(item (t "Available at") (it "https://mgoal.ca/textbooks.csv"))) |
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#:title "Copyright terms" |
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#:title "Copyright creep" |
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(item "Copyright creep prevents more recent disciplines from using the public domain") |
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(item "Copyright terms continue to increase, currently it is life + 50 years under Canadian law") |
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(item "Thanks, Disney") |
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(scaledpict "./disney.png" 0.8) |
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(item (it "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries'_copyright_lengths"))) |
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(item "Manually look at individual courses") |
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(item "Go on the book store website") |
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(item "Look at individual courses") |
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(item "Search for them on the internet archive or gutenber") |
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(item "Search for them on the internet archive or gutenberg.org") |
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(t "The aim is to make this into one step")) |
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#:title "Future improvements" |
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(para "Hoping to add more databases from other schools, more accurate matching, and to make it easier for students to contribute their own notes") |
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(t "Anyone who can contribute should feel free")) |
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(para "I'm Hoping to add more databases from other schools, more accurate matching, and to make it easier for students to contribute their own notes") |
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(item (t "Anyone who can contribute should feel free!") (it "https://github.com/nisstyre56/TextbookEngine")) |
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(item (t "source of this talk") (it "https://github.com/nisstyre56/opencon2016"))) |
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