Replacing Textbooks: Difference between revisions

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Although there is substantial research on computers in education, there is no systematic research program on what can be done using one-to-one computing to teach existing courses better, that is, with deeper understanding by students, or to teach subjects at earlier ages.

==~~UNESCO~~==

==External Links==

UNESCO takes this idea very seriously, and has asked [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] to [http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512&group_guid=14358 open a discussion] on it on their WSIS Web site~~. He has also created a [http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/fundraiser/Mokurai CrowdRise fundraiser] for this project~~.

* The [http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/ Replacing Textbooks fundraiser] on Crowdrise

* Mokurai's [http://replacingtextbooks.wordpress.com/ Replacing Textbooks] blog, also available at [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet Sugar].

* [http://www.earthtreasury.org/ Earth Treasury]

* The [http://www.librarianchick.com/ Librarian Chick catalog] of free digital education resources

* The [http://www.clrn.org/fdti/ California Free Digital Textbook Initiative]

* The [http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/projects/free-high-school-science-texts/ Shuttleworth Foundation's Free high school science texts]

* UNESCO takes this idea very seriously, and has asked [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] to [http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512&group_guid=14358 open a discussion] on it on their WSIS Web site.

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 Although there is substantial research on computers in education, there is no systematic research program on what can be done using one-to-one computing to teach existing courses better, that is, with deeper understanding by students, or to teach subjects at earlier ages.
-==UNESCO==
+==External Links==
-UNESCO takes this idea very seriously, and has asked [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] to [http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512&group_guid=14358 open a discussion] on it on their WSIS Web site. He has also created a [http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/fundraiser/Mokurai CrowdRise fundraiser] for this project.
+* The [http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/ Replacing Textbooks fundraiser] on Crowdrise
+* Mokurai's [http://replacingtextbooks.wordpress.com/ Replacing Textbooks] blog, also available at [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet Sugar].
+* [http://www.earthtreasury.org/ Earth Treasury]
+* The [http://www.librarianchick.com/ Librarian Chick catalog] of free digital education resources
+* The [http://www.clrn.org/fdti/ California Free Digital Textbook Initiative]
+* The [http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/projects/free-high-school-science-texts/ Shuttleworth Foundation's Free high school science texts]
+* UNESCO takes this idea very seriously, and has asked [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] to [http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512&group_guid=14358 open a discussion] on it on their WSIS Web site.