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The Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) organization is a South African non-profit project, which creates
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on scientific subjects. Textbooks are edited to follow the government's
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, and published under a
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license (CC BY), allowing teachers and students to print them or share them digitally.


History

FHSST was conceived in 2002 by Mark Horner, a physicist, when some rural South African children asked him to
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notes that they had taken on a talk he gave on wave phenomena. The children intended to take the notes back to their schoolmates to use as a textbook on the subject.


Subjects

FHSST has released books for grades 10-12 on
physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which rel ...
, chemistry and mathematics. They are developing books in
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and
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and a guide to teach students how to study.


See also

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OpenCourseWare OpenCourseWare (OCW) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet. OCW projects first appeared in the late 1990s, and after gaining traction in Europe and then the United States have become a worldwide means ...
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Open educational resources Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify. The term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and ...
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Open textbook An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public. Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be do ...
* Bookboon *
China Open Resources for Education The China Open Resources for Education, or CORE, was a non-profit organization that promoted closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities. Its website is offline since 2013. Overview ...
* Connexions * Curriki * Flat World Knowledge * Flexbook *
Khan Academy Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Sal Khan. Its goal is creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also i ...
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MIT OpenCourseWare MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywh ...
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National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning ''National Programme on Technology Enhanced LearningNPTEL) is an Indian learning platform for university-level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects. It is jointly developed by Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institu ...
India *
Open.Michigan Open.Michigan is a collection of open initiatives and projects at the University of Michigan (U-M). Open.Michigan supports the open access and use of U-M resources for teaching, learning, and research. Open.Michigan promotes open content licensing ...
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Tufts OpenCourseWare The Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) project, was a web-based publication of educational material from a number of Tufts University courses, providing open sharing of free, searchable, high-quality course content to educators, students, and self-learners ...


References


External links

* {{official, http://www.fhsst.org Open content Science textbooks