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Blake KeithGood, short read on Open Source and the possibilities of an open source textbook for the classroom
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Angilee DowningI really need to explore this.
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Jessica SepkeInteresting article about open education resources and efforts to build custom online texts.
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Elizabeth ZoddaBuilding Your Own Textbook by @audreywatters: http://t.co/hEB9EqI5 #edchat #edtech #elearning
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Carolyn Durleytextbook building
Building your own textbook - http://t.co/blmNB5g0 [ #edchat #educhat #schools #edtech #heuristics #teachers {via @edutopia}]
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Jen Ghttp://www.edutopia.org/blog/building-your-own-textbook-audrey-watters
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Tom Daccord"Textbooks are a multi-billion dollar industry -- an estimated $3.5 billion for the K-12 market alone. But the growing availability of digital content and open educational resources (OER) is giving schools the opportunity to bypass some of the traditional expenses of textbook purchasing. It's also giving teachers the opportunities to build their own textbooks. "
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Jeff ZoulMaking the case for the advantages of building our own digital textbooks as opposed to traditional textbooks.
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Cherice MontgomeryExcellent blog post by Audrey Watters 12/19/11
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But when you digitize textbooks, you can disassemble all those various pieces that comprise it -- the different units, chapters, exercises, diagrams, illustrations and so on -- and you can reengineer something completely different. You can add video explanations, for example. You can make the diagrams interactive. You can add social elements, letting students make notes in the "margins" and share them with one another.
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Mathieu Plourde"When you digitize other types of books -- novels, for example -- you (probably) want to retain the layout and the chronology of the original print version. But when you digitize textbooks, you can disassemble all those various pieces that comprise it -- the different units, chapters, exercises, diagrams, illustrations and so on -- and you can reengineer something completely different. You can add video explanations, for example. You can make the diagrams interactive. You can add social elements, letting students make notes in the "margins" and share them with one another. "
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States and districts are increasingly turning to these sorts of open resources, particularly as budgets shrink. Earlier this year, the state of Washington launched the Open Course Library, a collection of open source textbooks for the state's 81 most popular college courses, and California has just proposed legislation that would fund a similar effort there. And teachers in the Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minnesota created their own math textbooks (in part with resources from CK-12).
In having its teachers build the textbooks, the district touted the money it saved, noting too that the teachers were able to craft curriculum specifically suited to Minnesota standards. And just as importantly, as the textbooks are digital, they can be continually updated -- unlike the printed textbooks which in the case of the Anoka-Hennepin district were only refreshed once every decade.open_textbooks Audrey_Watters Educational_Technology X12_11_Research_Report_23 K-12
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Nancy BlairArticle from Edutopia that describes movementfor teachers to build their own textbooks from open source documents and resources.
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Craig NansenBuilding Your Own Textbook, resources and information for teachers. http://t.co/mMYUoYSb #Teacher #Curriculum
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Mike Fisher[Trending] How to Build Your Own Textbook http://t.co/9PJqKco4 #edtech #edreform
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But when you digitize textbooks, you can disassemble all those various pieces that comprise it -- the different units, chapters, exercises, diagrams, illustrations and so on -- and you can reengineer something completely different. You can add video explanations, for example. You can make the diagrams interactive. You can add social elements, letting students make notes in the "margins" and share them with one another.
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flexibility to reuse and remix content
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craft curriculum specifically suited to Minnesota standards
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as the textbooks are digital, they can be continually updated
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While frequent updates might not seem so important for math textbooks, it's more obvious how this impacts something like science or social studies, where the materials should be more responsive to real-time, real-world changes
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Ed AllenBuilding Your Own Textbook http://t.co/DliAy1un via @zite
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Considering the Source
This sort of flexibility to reuse and remix content is made possible through the open licensing of educational materials. There are several organizations and companies that provide open source textbooks, including Flat World Knowledge and CK-12 (the former is a traditional publisher and focuses primarily on higher ed textbooks; the latter is a non-profit that offers K-12 science and math materials).
States and districts are increasingly turning to these sorts of open resources, particularly as budgets shrink. Earlier this year, the state of Washington launched the Open Course Library, a collection of open source textbooks for the state's 81 most popular college courses, and California has just proposed legislation that would fund a similar effort there. And teachers in the Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minnesota created their own math textbooks (in part with resources from CK-12).
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soberle"Textbooks are a multi-billion dollar industry -- an estimated $3.5 billion for the K-12 market alone. But the growing availability of digital content and open educational resources (OER) is giving schools the opportunity to bypass some of the traditional expenses of textbook purchasing. It's also giving teachers the opportunities to build their own textbooks. "
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Marie SlimBuilding Your Own Textbook by @AudreyWatters at | Edutopia http://t.co/PjQMS4XD
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Molly MyersBuilding Your Own Textbook http://t.co/DliAy1un via @zite
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