Honestly, I would be surprised if there were any such schools using open textbooks. This whole movement is still very young, and there aren't a lot of books yet that are in high-quality condition. Even when a book is found that is high-quality, it is singular and not part of a larger collection. Schools tend to like to get all their books from a single source, and don't want to have to pick and choose the best books from a dozen or more sites.
Wikibooks obviously doesn't have many books that are currently usable in a classroom, maybe not any depending on the particular requirements teachers have. We have books with lots of prose but with few examples/problems. Things like that are going to keep us from being adopted by schools.
However, we do have things coming through soonish, like automatic PDF export and flagged revisions that will increase our appeal to schools. Of course, whether or not we can market that is a different story.
--Andrew Whitworth
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Allen Majorovic amajorov@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi all, I signed up for the list just recently and my interest is in finding schools - K-12 schools in the U.S., preferably Michigan - that are using open textbooks.
Is anyone keeping track, trying to keep track, of actual usage of open textbooks?
Thanks
Allen
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