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Old 10-17-2008, 12:19 PM   #49
Danny Fekete
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I think it depends on the field you're talking about, Danny. Creating "customised" textbooks from free content may work in some fields (perhaps economics or sociology are among them - I don't know) but I can't see it working in the "hard sciences".
Baraniuk uses the example of electrical engineering (5:15ish) and signal processing (12:25).

Edit: Why do you think "hard sciences" are qualitatively different in this case?

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