California is considering more legislation that would allow schools to shift funding from textbooks to electronic instructional materials. Combined with (state-approved) open textooks, this could pave the way for more effective learning experiences. Now we just need to find some
CA launches open textbook initiative
Calilfornia has launched an initiative for free, open textbooks for high school math and science. Very nice to see such a high profile announcment. A little hard to see how CDE could pull this off by fall, 2009 with as
PD as the “most open” and Flickr
Scott Leslie tweeted about something I’ve thought about myself many times… Flickr’s lack of a public domain license option. I wrote this message to the Flickr team. If you share the desire to have a PD license option, drop them
Open ed materials dev as service learning
What a great idea! DeAnza College has a community service learning project that involves developing open educational resources. They suggest several projects that students can contribute to. What a phenomenal way to teach about OER while contributing something to the
Want to stop buying textbooks?
I was on a panel discussion on open content in K-12 education and was asked “What advice would you give to a superintendent, principal, or curriculum director who would like to stop buying textbooks? ” Here is a response to