On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:33, Glenn Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Open Source Text Canada (OSTC) is a new foundation seeking to create Open > Source versions of K-12 Canadian curricula.
As Program Manager for Replacing Textbooks at Sugar Labs, I would like to invite you to work with us. We have started with a booki server for collaborative authoring of Open Educational Resources, soon to be upgraded to the forthcoming BookType. http://booki.treehouse.su http://booktype-demo.sourcefabric.org/ I assume that you are going to produce French and English versions. What about First Nation languages? Sugar Labs is working in about a hundred languages so far, and can support any others for which a community of interest is willing to do the work. > Even before Apple launched iBooks textbooks for iPad and raised the bar, > teachers were telling us that they wanted ways to engage their students and > at the same time leverage etextbooks to help them manage the workload of > testing and assignments. > > OSTC is seeking the broadest possible platform at the least expense for the > electronic versions of texts which appears to be the EPUBReader plugin for > Mozilla's Firefox with javascripts running within an EPUB. This platform > provides MathML, MusicML through free plugins, and superior conformity to > HTML5 and CSS3. > > So we are seeking input from the broader education community on in-book > apps, how testing might work, the roles and ratios of written sections > versus multiple choice, innovative ideas for assignments to encourage > students to read a section and submit a review, and any other idea you might > be willing to share. I am just completing a new edition of an executable algebra textbook, Algebra: An Algorithmic Treatment, by Turing Award winner Kenneth E. Iverson. It is available on the two servers I mentioned above, along with a draft of my project, Discovering Discovery and others. In the algebra book, every math statement can be copied and pasted into a software session for evaluation. The J software that it uses was put under GPL3 last year. > The resulting ideas will move on to programmers (either hired or volunteers) > and made available under the Creative Commons Canada licence. > > Looking forward to your responses, > > Glenn Ross CEO, Open Source Text Canada -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks -- 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]
