Looking for teaching ideas or course materials? Connexions is "an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license." Since the content is broken down into smaller pieces, it should be more easily used and adapted than textbooks. Ideally, you could locate and make connections among several modules and use them in a course. While the site has quite a bit of material, it may need some more before it's easy to put together a course this way. Also, the organization of material is in a flat format which might be a challenge as the site grows -- all of the material submitted under one category is listed there. Each module has link
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