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Free Textbooks: chimera of opportunities
wernerio (Chile) · 17/6/2007 20:33 · 20 votes
The Open Education Project Clinic was the solicit input from people working on peer production, sharing and open creativity and other domains. Four groups gathered around projects, one of them, the promising FreeTextbook. Promising because the different projects involved declared explicit intention of finding ways of collaboration and sharing.
And clearly, the content is not the central issue, but the necessary processes that need to be sparked to gain scalebility and sustainability. There's a crucial theme around how to engage and maintan the interest contribution in volunteers writers. Recognizing the need of a core team leadership, prominent figures authority and support, and tools to facilitate the knowledge costruction (stylesheets, wiki), the motivation can be promoted with competion reward strategies (prizes, certification, unversity student rewarded or suggested to liberate their content), off-line workflow and comunion (hakthons), manageble, modular and humble intentions on volume of content contribution. Also seems to be a need to approach the textbook industry which has expressed interest in this initiatives.
Major concern flows around how to involve textbook end-users, students and teachers, in a framework to adapt, select and purge content. To the day free textbooks are concieved as end-products. Teachers are somewhat shy or uninterested in sharing and participating, as well not having awakeness around free license issues and open education. Teachers coould also become self-select editors, deciding on the contents, contributing content and resources and their sequence regarding their special and local needs. Investigtion shows that much subutilized usage of printed textbooks is due to impossibility to change, contribute, update, adapt, disrupt sequence of the content.
Participated
Anas TAWILEH, Open Textbook Project
Martijn Arnoldus
CC Netherlands (Kennisland | Knowledgeland)
Jaroslaw Lipszyc, Wolne Podrę;;czniki
Joanne Boulle, FHSST (Free High School Science Texts)
Brendan Ballou
Werner Westermann
And clearly, the content is not the central issue, but the necessary processes that need to be sparked to gain scalebility and sustainability. There's a crucial theme around how to engage and maintan the interest contribution in volunteers writers. Recognizing the need of a core team leadership, prominent figures authority and support, and tools to facilitate the knowledge costruction (stylesheets, wiki), the motivation can be promoted with competion reward strategies (prizes, certification, unversity student rewarded or suggested to liberate their content), off-line workflow and comunion (hakthons), manageble, modular and humble intentions on volume of content contribution. Also seems to be a need to approach the textbook industry which has expressed interest in this initiatives.
Major concern flows around how to involve textbook end-users, students and teachers, in a framework to adapt, select and purge content. To the day free textbooks are concieved as end-products. Teachers are somewhat shy or uninterested in sharing and participating, as well not having awakeness around free license issues and open education. Teachers coould also become self-select editors, deciding on the contents, contributing content and resources and their sequence regarding their special and local needs. Investigtion shows that much subutilized usage of printed textbooks is due to impossibility to change, contribute, update, adapt, disrupt sequence of the content.
Participated
Anas TAWILEH, Open Textbook Project
Martijn Arnoldus
CC Netherlands (Kennisland | Knowledgeland)
Jaroslaw Lipszyc, Wolne Podrę;;czniki
Joanne Boulle, FHSST (Free High School Science Texts)
Brendan Ballou
Werner Westermann
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