Open-source textbooks help make education affordable

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College kids heading to school are also heading for sticker-shock when they discover the costs of this semester’s textbooks. But Rich Baraniuk believes he has a solution: free, collaborative textbooks. Guest: Rich Baraniuk, Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical engineering at Rice University and founder of Connexions, the open-source textbook Web site

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