El día 31 de marzo de 2012 17:33, Glenn Ross <[email protected]> escribió: > Open Source Text Canada (OSTC) is a new foundation seeking to create Open > Source versions of K-12 Canadian curricula. > > 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. > > The resulting ideas will move on to programmers (either hired or volunteers) > and made available under the Creative Commons Canada licence. >
It is a very interesting project, Glenn! Keep us informed on it so maybe we can collaborate too. Some of the Books/Collections tools of Wikieducator could be adapted/improved too in order to build more interactive epub. -- lm > Looking forward to your responses, > > Glenn Ross CEO, Open Source Text Canada > > -- > 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] -- 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]
