Thread: Texas Board of Education at it again Banning textbooks
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Old 09-23-2010, 02:19 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
Certainly California and Texas are the "heavy hitters" in the school textbook arena. I wasn't aware of the "Open Source Textbook" plan. Do you have links?

Thanks!
A few links:
CA Open Source Textbook Project (began in 2002; not actually successful in producing textbooks yet); Wikipedia listing, describing the project w/o the marketing hype.

Problems with COSTP "Schwarzenegger has tasked California Secretary of Education Glen Thomas with making sure that the new textbooks are ready for deployment in fall 2009." (AFIAK, they weren't. Or at least, not on any scale I noticed.)

California free digital textbooks PDFs, of course. But the flexbooks approach lets you assemble customized books; teachers can update a chapter on their own and still use the rest of the main book, or they could assemble a book with pieces from several other books. (I think. Haven't fully explored the site yet.)
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