Hi, I know a school using an open source textbook - it´s the
"Photoschule Großformat", a school to teach photograpers asked for that.
And there was a social projekt bringing kids away from the street they
use it too.
best wishes
lars
Sanford Forte schrieb:
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(a)yahoo.com>
To: <textbook-l(a)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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