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- The problem for open source textbooks
- The problem for open source textbooksinteresting one, here is an attempt...1) Find an author/publisher willing to open source an existing textbook as the 'seed' for each subject. The seed is very important.2) Have a wikipedia style site. Decide whether and how contributors and contributions will be managed. 3) Have periodic...
- Tags: open source, state?s children, textbook, open source textbook
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- An open source textbook is more than a book
- An open source textbook is more than a bookCompetition is goodThe commercial textbook publishers have gotten way too fat and happy over the last few decades, with college students and taxpayers picking up most of the tab. The existence of freely copyable alternatives will surely force the publishers to...
- Tags: open source textbook, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- An open source textbook is more than a book
- Coordinator Jim Batterson announced the project in October, and his 13 authors had their work done by February 27. They included active researchers, high school teachers, and college professors, as well as some retirees. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source Textbook, CK-12 Flexbook, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- The open source textbook conundrum
- The open source textbook conundrumCopyrightsThere's another issue, which is copyrights. I run a group of religious websites and one has a chart I prepared comparing Protestantism and Catholicism. I occasionally check the Net for links to my sites. I was quite surprised to find that the chart...
- Tags: Luiz, Grand Inquisitor, open source textbook, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
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- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- The Open College Textbook Act of 2009
- ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- Open source and forced obsolescence
- You gutted your own articleFirst, no one forces you to update your software, period. There *are* companies that won't support antiques, and who can blame them? Support costs are very high, especially since one person or team can't be expected to be expert in a dozen different versions of the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), obsolescence, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- CK-12 Foundation dominates California e-textbook search
- Last month, I wrote a post on the CK-12 Foundation and their free textbook initiatives. As I suggested then, When some serious Silicon Valley heavyweights get together with Stanford academics and experienced K-12 educators to start producing high-quality, open content, chances are good that you’ll...
- Tags: California, Standards, Textbook, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Hate educational DRM? Try a Flexbook
- Last night, I wrote a piece on the need to really rethink DRM in education. No sooner had I posted it than @CK12FlexBooks was following me on Twitter. Always the intrepid link-clicker, I started digging around the CK-12 Foundation website and couldn't help but be impressed. When...
- Tags: K-12, Digital-rights Management, Standards, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Quality, Web Site Development, Security, Business Operations, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Why enterprise networks run Windows, not the Mac
- Why enterprise networks run Windows, not the MacHere's an asbestos suit.Because, boy, are you going to need it.Anyway...The reason they don't succeed is down to three things:1) TCO - ripping out your infrastructure to replace it with someone else's gear doesn't make sense unless you have to. Since good...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, PC, enterprise network, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- The problem for open source textbooks
- Every textbook is a political document. This is its strength and its weakness. Authority gives textbooks power, but it's also why most read more like software manuals than real books. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Textbook, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger Kindle
- I read a great article this morning in InformationWeek. It didn't focus on any of my concerns with the Kindle DX (high cost, black and white screen, lack of WiFi, closed standards, DRM, etc.). Rather, it went to the heart of educational content for the device: ...what...
- Tags: Profit Margin, Textbook, Textbook Publisher, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Benefits, Open Source, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Screw Kindle...just give me a decent app for textbooks
- Screw Kindle...just give me a decent app for textbooksI agreeI have to agree with you there. The Kindle is a nice gadget, but completely superfluous. Heck between MobiReader Pocket and the Gutenberg Project, I can read the classics on my BlackBerry (one of my personal projects. I...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), E-books, Tablets, Notebooks, textbook
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- O'Reilly: Chopra is the Government 2.0 choice for CTO
- Is the pick of Aneesh Chopra as the nation's CTO a snub for Silicon Valley? After all, Chopra comes from Virginia state government and CIO Vivek Kundra was most recently in D.C. government. You'll recall in the midst of the speculation about who Obama would pick for these posts, I...
- Tags: Job, CTO, Health Care, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Foster plan for open source education
- Bill Foster right, the physicist and Democrat who succeeded former Speaker Dennis Hastert in Congress, has what you might call a cunning open source plan. Any federal agency spending over $10 million on scientific education should put 2% of that money into creating open source materials, posting...
- Tags: Education, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Taking notes on your Linux laptop
- Taking notes on your Linux laptopNo, but certainly part of the MS enabled ecosystem.His post reads exactly as someone who is desperate to downplay Linux while espousing that the only "real" software is Windows based. Be a shame if any of those kids wanted to learn web technologies though,...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Taking Notes, Linux laptop, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- News to know: Wolfram Alpha; iPhone developers; Windows 7; Cyberwar
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web' Nova Spivak: Wolfram Alpha is Coming â€" and It Could be as...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- K-12 textbooks in for a big change
- K-12 textbooks in for a big changeWhat a radical conceptI hear that some state called "Massachusetts" has a State technology institute where the professors (who might also be "subject-matter experts") have been putting courseware on the Web using open-redistribution licensing.Be CarefulText books are better for learning from, because the source...
- Tags: Text Book, textbook, K-12, K-12 textbook
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- What have we done?
- What have we done?No problem Democrats will give out moneyIt is no problem, the printing presses are running now and money is on the way to build parks, pay for condom distribution and spend millions on untold garbage programs.With our new Leaders 'spread the wealth around' mantra it will lead...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Financial services, NOW IT
- Discussion threads 2009-02-07
- Saint Paul College Saves Nearly 70% With Distributed Sun Solution
- Founded in 1910, Minnesota's Saint Paul College is a two-year technical college that offers 40 associate degree programs, 69 occupational and certificate programs, and various transfer programs to four-year universities. It needed to offer a secure, consistent teaching platform for students, to provide students access to computer resources anytime, anywhere,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Computer, Saint Paul College, Productivity, Cloud Computing, Open Source
- Case studies 2009-01-01
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