You may want to check out this October 2009 article from the Hewlett Foundation on the Liberation of textbooks http://www.hewlett.org/news/the-liberation-of-textbooks .
Interestingly about 60 miles from De Anza College in Cupertino, California - De La Salle High School in Concord has used and I believe is still using the on line Wiley Physics textbook with its 12th grade students. I'm sure that with the increasing cost of education (or in California's case the lack of money for education!) and the declining cost of technology - school districts will move to online textbooks and resource materials over cutting the number of teachers. Gee! ... I wonder why Houghton Mifflin and McGraw-Hill, have available on line primary school mathematics textbook series (not that they count for 52+% of the math textbooks used in the United States). jim kelly On Feb 19, 7:38 pm, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: > I had an excellent meeting with an Asst. Superintendent of Bartholomew > County schools in Indiana. They plan to give every student a computer > that will cost less than printed textbooks. We will discuss contracts > to write the replacements for textbooks, funding sources for those > contracts, and alliances across the US and the world, as described at > > http://www.earthtreasury.org/wiki.cgi?ReplacingTextbooks > > I will be contacting all of our actual and potential partners (on that > page and elsewhere) on this ASAP. Our next meeting is scheduled for March 4. > > -- > Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my > destination.http://www.earthtreasury.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
