[FM Discuss] New booki for replacing textbooks with OER

[adam]

awesome ed....

can u join the list i created for booki (i posted the link to the list 
today) and we can swing all that kind of assist there...

adam



On 04/01/2011 08:40 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> A number of factors have recently come together to support a
> full-scale attack on the global education problem (and the poverty and
> related ills that education can largely cure), not least among them
> booki. Sugar Labs has set up a new trial booki instance for our
> Replace Textbooks project, at
>
> http://booki.treehouse.su/
>
> We have some admin tasks to be completed before we can create books
> there, and I will need help learning to be the admin.
>
> I expect the production version to be hosted at sugarlabs.org. The
> outline of the project is at
>
> http://www.wsis-community.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=118512&group_guid=14358
> OER Economics for a billion children
>
> It is based on the fact that computers + OERs now cost much less than
> printed textbooks, except in those countries that can't afford decent
> textbooks to begin with.
>
> Our first projects will be based on Don Cohen's Calculus by and for
> Young People, and Caleb Gattegno's language and math teaching methods.
> We would like to cover every topic for every course for every age,
> preschool through high school, for students and teachers, and let
> teachers and education authorities remix them as needed. Maybe for
> parents and ministries of education, too.
>
> Our next technical problem will be integrating our OERs with Sugar
> education software. There are several possible approaches that I
> intend to discuss with those who may be able to help realize them.
>
> Accomplishing all of this will depend on recruiting a lot of
> volunteers, and perhaps attracting some funding. Let me know if you
> are interested.
>
> I have begin to outline a textbook on economics for OER instructional
> designers, following a suggestion by Maria Droujkova on the
> MathFutures list. The idea is to tell the truth about the limitations
> of conventional economics, and to explore the economics of Free
> Software and OERs for a billion children at a time, as in my
> UNESCO/WSIS post.
>

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