Concept
Global Text aims to provide a free textbook library encompassing all topics commonly encountered in the first years of university undergraduate education. Material is contributed by unpaid volunteers, although it is being considered whether to set up paid scholarships to encourage submission of material. Textbook projects are supervised by university teachers/professors from the relevant fields to ensure information quality. Experts are encouraged to contribute chapters or sections which are joined to produce a complete textbook. Students are also involved in content creation as well as in copyediting, preparation of diagrams, and software-related tasks.
A semi-automatic translation project, using software provided by Sajan, is under way to convert English textbooks into common world languages.
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Famous quotes containing the word concept:
“To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain
physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed: that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.”
—Percy W. Bridgman (1882–1961)
“Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality, but to those of another.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
“The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)