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California open source digital textbook plan faces barriers
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| The governor of California has launched a new initiative to compile open
| source textbooks for the state. He hopes that the plan will help cut costs
| and improve the quality of education. The effort seems very promising, but
| the state's complex standards and arduous textbook evaluation process will
| pose major challenges.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/california-launches-open-source-digital-textbook-initiative.ars
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/
John Conyers and Open Access
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| The "open access movement" was born to create an alternative to this. Even if
| restrictive copyright was a necessary evil in the days of dead-tree-based
| publishing, it was still an evil. High costs restrict access. The business
| model of the scientist is to spread his or her knowledge as widely as
| possible. Open access journals, such as, for example, those created by the
| Public Library of Science, have adopted a different publishing model, to
| guarantee that all all research is freely accessible online (under the freest
| Creative Commons license) immediately, to anyone around the world. This
| guarantee of access, however, is not purchased by any compromise in academic
| standards. There is still a peer-review process. There is still even a
| paper-based publication.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/john_conyers_and_open_access.html
Speak now, Mr. Conyers, or withdraw this embarrassment of a bill
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| On the Huffington Post, Mike Eisen and I have asked Mr. Conyers to respond to
| the calls that he withdraw the embarrassing, anti-open access HR 801 (aka,
| the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act).
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/speak_now_mr_conyers_or_withdr.html
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