John,
Most of what you see in the link below reflects the current state of Wiki (and other) open source textbook development. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content
It's hard to know exactly how many people are engaged in open source textbook development, but it's growing all the time as the open source textbook movements gathers steam as a practical way for states to save money, while increasing quality of textbooks for universities and K-12.
To the best of my knowledge, no K-12 public school district that has yet adopted a Wiki textbook. This is primarily because the open source K-12 textbook effort is so new, as well as the fact that purchasing behaviors in public school systems are strongly habituated to working with commercial publishers. This has begun to change, but slowly.
That said, I'm also interested in hearing from anyone who knows of a public school adoption of an open source K-12 textbook
Best, Sanford www.opensourcetext.org
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brolap" brolap@yahoo.com To: textbook-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 3:45 PM Subject: [Textbook-l] State of the Union on Open Wiki Textbooks?
I am new to this group, but am super duper interested in supporting the "movement".
Would someone be kind enough to give me an update as to the "State of the Union" for Open Wiki Textbooks?
I would love to know things like:
-- How many people are engaged? -- Is the movement growing, or shrinking? -- Are any Wiki textbooks "completed"? If so, how many? -- Is there any record of any school or school district anywhere in the U.S. that has agreed to use a Wiki Textbook for official classes? -- Is there another forum or alias or group where the dialog is more active/involved? -- Are there other open textbook initiatives outside of this one that I should be aware of?
I can't wait to learn more!
John
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