This an archive of the original COOL4Ed website. For the current version, please go to coolfored.org
Welcome to COOL 4 ED!
The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning (Learn more about how and why we're doing this)
Make a difference with your students by making sure they all have access to course materials on the first day of class and for the rest of their lives.
ADD Free eTextbooks You're Using or Created Into MERLOT
Are you using free eTextbooks in your teaching or your learning? Have you created free eTextbooks? We invite you to catalog these resources in MERLOT. Your colleagues and students around the world will thank you!
IT'S EASY!
First: Become a member of MERLOT (It will take about 2 minutes and it’s FREE).
Second: Fill out the online form to Contribute a Material. (It will take about 4 minutes the first time and step-by-step instructions for contributing materials (PDF) to MERLOT are available).
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