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Education Team/Creating textbooks (view source)
Revision as of 12:35, 9 April 2011
, 12:35, 9 April 2011Link to Replacing Textbooks
We know we have to create a new generation of electronic textbooks, but until now, nobody has stepped up. People tell me that this is in part because they don't see how to get past print publishers, teachers' unions, and Ministries of Education to get the new materials into use. But there is a sneaky way to do it. We just give them away for free, and completely bypass the established bureaucratic textbook acquisition process with all of its expenses, delays, and compromises. This will also liberate 48 US states from the domination of the textbook market by California and Texas.
News: Sugar Labs is setting up a [[Replacing Textbooks]] project now.
We know we have to create a new generation of electronic replacements for textbooks, but until now, nobody has stepped up. People tell me that this is in part because they don't see how to get past print publishers, teachers' unions, and Ministries of Education to get the new materials into use. But there is a sneaky way to do it. We just give them away for free, and completely bypass the established bureaucratic textbook acquisition process with all of its expenses, delays, and compromises. This will also liberate 47 US states from the domination of the textbook market by California, New York, and Texas.
It turns out that there are serious opportunities for funding of such projects. [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] is working with the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Columbus, Indiana. BCSC had a plan in place to replace textbooks with netbooks and digital media. They and Mokurai are discussing funding possibilities, including the tens of billions of dollars on offer from the US Department of Education.
==Partners==
==Partners==
[[Earth Treasury]] has initiated a project to create interactive digital textbooks with the following potential partners
[[Earth Treasury]] has initiated a project to create interactive digital textbooks with the following potential partners. We have top level agreement in principle from the organizations marked ''agreed'', and are waiting to hear from the others at the official level.
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Alan_Kay Alan Kay]'s [http://www.vpri.org/ Viewpoints Research Institute] ''agreed'' Smalltalk/Squeak/Etoys, teaching methods
* The [http://dougengelbart.org/ Doug Engelbart Institute] at [http://www.sri.com/ SRI] ''agreed'' Augmenting Collective Intelligence
* [http://www.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] [http://learn.creativecommons.org/ ccLearn] program ''agreed'' Ahrash Bissell; Licensing, content
* [http://www.groklaw.net Groklaw] ''agreed'' PJ; legal rights
* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/ FLOSS Manuals] ''agreed'' Adam Hyde; book sprint methodology
* [http://www.thetech.org/ The Tech Museum of Innovation] ''agreed'' Peter Friess, Robert Stephenson; Model classroom exhibit for the public and visiting school classes to try out.
* [http://fantsuam.org/ Fantsuam Foundation] ''agreed'' John Dada; various educational and economic initiatives in Nigeria
* [http://www.uew.edu.gh/ University of Education, Winneba], Ghana ''agreed by faculty member; waiting'' Kafui Prebbie; Partner with Ghanaian government on XO project
* [http://www.ms.lt/ Minciu Sodas] ''agreed'' Andrius Kulikauskus; Laboratory for Independent Thinkers
Possible
* Sugar Labs ''waiting'' Walter Bender; Sugar. Wants to see our first round of textbooks before committing to anything.
* [http://laptop.org/ OLPC] ''waiting'' Nicholas Negroponte; XO
* [http://ole.org/ Open Learning Exchange] ''waiting'' Richard Rowe; business plan for education support in every developing country
* [http://olenepal.org/ OLE Nepal] ''waiting'' Bryan Berry; needs 10,000 learning modules
* [http://www.onevillagefoundation.org/ OneVillage Foundation] ''waiting'' Joy Tang; Open Digital Village
We have many more potential partners in mind.
==Principles==
==Principles==
* Choose demonstration projects
* Choose demonstration projects
* You tell me--[[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] 01:11, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
* You tell me--[[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] 01:11, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
==Resources==
* [http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator]
* [http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Page TeachingOpenSource.org]
* [http://www.librarianchick.com/ The Librarian Chick]
* [http://www.clrn.org/fdti/ California Free Digital Textbook Initiative]
==See Also==
* [[Education/Curriculum Standards|Curriculum Standards]]
* [[Education/Textbook Replacement Projects|Textbook Replacement Projects]]
[[Category:Project]]