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Students at Texas Tech University are learning the fundamentals of business management from Atlas Black.  Atlas is a 20-something, a bit of a slacker – and he’s a character in a comic book. Professor Jeremy Short co-wrote a series of graphic novels, which he’s been using instead of textbooks in his business classes, to...
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College textbook publisher Flat World announced today that use of it’s openly-licensed college textbooks will double for the Fall 2010 academic year, and publishers are sure to be paying attention. Flat World’s textbooks are published under an open Creative Commons license, as opposed to the industry-standard “all rights reserved” copyright.  Faculty can pick and...
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