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Nov 18, 2006

"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." --Herman Melville

A Collection Of Free Knowledge

A unique web-based teaching and learning environment is geared to change the way educational materials are developed and used. Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools that helps authors publish and collaborate, instructors rapidly build and share custom courses and learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. It provides a range of services -- right from reducing the cost of expensive text books and allowing for rapid customization, to the facilitation and construction of semantic webs.

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