Re: [school-discuss] project idea: open source text books

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, James Daley wrote:

> quick question what is the difference between a text book anyother 
> book like a manual or reference guide?

In my case, I want to initially provide courseware for primary and 
secondary (K-12) education as official replacements for heavy, 
expensive, and proprietary textbooks. This needs to be approved (and 
desired) by school teachers, administration, lawmakers (in some cases), 
and hopefully the children/parents too. The target medium may be small 
touch pad devices, ebook readers, laptops, or even printed and bound 
materials.

Some first steps may be:

- find out how much schools spend on certain textbooks and how often 
updated or replaced.

- find out procedures for publishers to propose new textbooks

- find out procedures for instructors to request new textbooks

- how are lawmakers involved? What are the levels of permission or 
requirements? (local, district, state?)

- what types of textbooks require permission at different levels?
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