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

[James Daley <jrdaley_home@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am working with a group to develop as you would say a "text book" on aquaponics. It would be great if there was a single app that would allow you to imput a docx document and with preferences selected allow you to publish in various formats and to multipe open source sites. This would require individuals at various levels at the sites to ok this action and a app that would read and translate into the various formats required and then transmit the results to the site. 

Possible options

 1. Option would be the ability to zip everything up. 

 2. If doc has been published have the program attach a code that would allow the doc to be updated by the author.

Is there such a tool in existence?

James

--- On Fri, 1/27/12, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] project idea: open source text books
To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:54 PM

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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