Talk:Education Team/Creating textbooks: Difference between revisions

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 Why do you have to wait for others to agree? If it will be a free project, you just need to set up a forge...[[User:Kozuch|Kozuch]] 01:18, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
+==What about these?==
+Have you talked to the Wikimedia foundation? Their Wikibooks and Wikiversity projects are already developing textbooks and teaching materials.
+Also the [http://www.hesperian.org/about_copyright.php Hesperian Foundation], publishers of "Where there is no doctor" and other books. This is an excellent basic medical guide and they have a fairly liberal copyright policy too. I think they might be interested.
+[[User:Filceolaire|Filceolaire]] 22:21, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
+== Tools to create Textbooks ==
+Why don't you just provide tools so that textbooks can be converted into electronic forms easily and cheaply.
+Many textbooks especially for the primary school students, are scarce in the number of bytes used and controlled by the Ministries of Education.
+OLPC has the potential to reduce distribution and printing costs which may make OLPC worthwhile to invest in.
+In Malaysia, we have another problem of too many textbooks that make it too heavy for our children to carry.
+Comments from Ethiopeian teachers should be listened to. OLPC should not be used as toys or entertainment.
+[[User:Othmanskn|Othmanskn]] 12:06, 19 March 2009 (UTC)