The Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) organization is a South African non-profit project, which creates
open textbooks on scientific subjects. Textbooks are edited to follow the government's
syllabus
A syllabus (; plural ''syllabuses'' or ''syllabi'') or specification is a document that communicates information about an academic course or class and defines expectations and responsibilities. It is generally an overview or summary of the curric ...
, and published under a
Creative Commons 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
proofread 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 r ...
,
chemistry and
mathematics. They are developing books in
life sciences and
computer literacy
Computer literacy is defined as the knowledge and ability to use computers and related technology efficiently, with skill levels ranging from elementary use to computer programming and advanced problem solving. Computer literacy can also refer ...
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 ...
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Bookboon
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China Open Resources for Education
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Connexions
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Curriki
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Flat World Knowledge
FlatWorld is a publisher of college-level textbooks and educational supplements for a worldwide audience founded in 2007 as Flat World Knowledge by Eric Frank and Jeff Shelstad. It was acquired at the end of 2016 by Alastair Adam and John Eielson ...
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Flexbook
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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 in ...
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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, anyw ...
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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
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Open.Michigan
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Tufts OpenCourseWare
References
External links
* {{official, http://www.fhsst.org
Open content
Science textbooks