On Saturday, March 15, 2014 11:45:50 AM Jay Lozier wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Is this primarily a US initiative? I am in the Atlanta area and I have > not heard anything about this locally. > > I am interested. > > Jay > > On 03/15/2014 12:56 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Is anyone interested in creating a LibreOffice for Education Text Book > > project? > > > > This can and probably should be setup as its own working group. > > > > The California Open Source Textbook Project http://www.opensourcetext.org/ > > Is currently seeking Open Source Text Books for The California Public > > Schools K-12. They require the material to be presented in a Text Book > > style. This would be a good way to get LibreOffice into Word Processing > > Classes in California High Schools as well as schools around the world. > > > > College Open Text Book http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ Is also > > seeking > > Text Books for use in Colleges, This would be a good opportunity to get > > LibreOffice into College's across the US! > > > > Open Text Book Library is another College Initiative > > http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ as well. > > > > There are quite a few more of these organizations that partnerships could > > be established with as well. > > > > I have been seeing a number for these popping up and I have seen some that > > will pay $20,000 USD for Creative Commons Text Book Donations late last > > year which could be used to help fund the this working group. Community > > developed software with educational community developed Course-ware would > > work out pretty well. > > > > These initiatives would require producing a full text book with exercises > > etc. > > > > As The LibreOffice Software already has an unbeatable low cost all we are > > missing to take over the education sector is unbeatable low cost > > course-ware to go with it. > > > > Establishing a full LibreOffice For Education program with the goals of > > not only producing the text books but also full courses and possibly > > Moodle course ware, Produced courses could even potentially be made > > available at edX https://www.edx.org/ (Which has a Free Into To Linux > > Course this year for those who have not registered for it yet.) It is a > > $2,400 course normally taught by The Linux Foundation. > > > > Tim
Jay, I am in The Texas area. I only check into US based Open Text Book Projects. Tim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
