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California's textbook future
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| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has the right idea about providing online
| textbooks to California students instead of the heavy and highly expensive
| books that have been a staple of education. But his proposal -- to have
| textbook companies provide free content in exchange for proceeds from
| purchases of other classroom supplies -- is financially clunky and digitally
| outmoded. What's needed is a new model for collecting and disseminating
| information to students, and that's going to require a loosening of the
| state's labyrinthine regulations for textbook approval.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-textbooks23-2009may23,0,5857054.story
Recent:
CK-12 Foundation’s Neeru Khosla on Open Textbooks
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| We are very excited about the opportunity that the OER community has in this
| financially stressed out time. To quote Paul Romer, “Crisis is a terrible
| thing to waste”; this is the time for us to bring OER into the main stream.
| We typically don’t talk about our future plans; as we believe in getting it
| done, rather than talk about it.Our Virginia FlexBook project is the first
| stepping-stone, and we are working with various governmental agencies both in
| Federal and different State levels to make our mission successful.
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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14141
Related:
The push for open textbooks
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| On April 15, 2008, 1,000 professors from 300 schools released a statement
| declaring their collective dissatisfaction with the textbook publishing
| industry, and expressing a large amount of support for affordable
| alternatives such as open textbooks.
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| Open, or "open source," textbooks can mean different things to different
| people, but at its core, open textbooks commonly refer to free digital
| textbooks accessible to everyone, not just students. Students, or others, can
| then print them at home or view them online.
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http://media.www.dailyvanguard.com/media/storage/paper941/news/2008/05/01/News/The-Push.For.Open.Textbooks-3360074.shtml
Flat World Knowledge Gets $8 Million for Open-source Textbooks
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| Flat World Knowledge, a provider of commercial, open-source college
| textbooks, announced on Tuesday that it has closed an $8 million first round
| of funding.
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http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/03/24/flat-world-knowledge-gets-$8-million-open-source-textbooks
Open-Source Textbook Firm Flat World Knowledge Gets $8 Million
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-open-source-textbook-firm-flat-world-knowledge-gets-8-million/
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