2014-03-15 6:56 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>: > Is anyone interested in creating a LibreOffice for Education Text Book > project? > > This can and probably should be setup as its own working group. > > The California Open Source Textbook Project http://www.opensourcetext.org/ > Is currently seeking Open Source Text Books for The California Public Schools > K-12. They require the material to be presented in a Text Book style. This > would be a good way to get LibreOffice into Word Processing Classes in > California High Schools as well as schools around the world. > > College Open Text Book http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ Is also seeking > Text Books for use in Colleges, This would be a good opportunity to get > LibreOffice into College's across the US! > > Open Text Book Library is another College Initiative > http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ as well. > > There are quite a few more of these organizations that partnerships could be > established with as well. > > I have been seeing a number for these popping up and I have seen some that > will pay $20,000 USD for Creative Commons Text Book Donations late last year > which could be used to help fund the this working group. Community developed > software with educational community developed Course-ware would work out > pretty well. > > These initiatives would require producing a full text book with exercises etc. > > As The LibreOffice Software already has an unbeatable low cost all we are > missing to take over the education sector is unbeatable low cost course-ware > to go with it. > > Establishing a full LibreOffice For Education program with the goals of not > only > producing the text books but also full courses and possibly Moodle course > ware, Produced courses could even potentially be made available at edX > https://www.edx.org/ (Which has a Free Into To Linux Course this year for > those who have not registered for it yet.) It is a $2,400 course normally > taught by The Linux Foundation.
The subject is indeed very important and TDF should pay serious attention toward this. Situation in many countries are heavely influenced by MS lobbyists. Fortunately the K-12 curriculum in Lithuania's state education system is open to software alternatives. I know personally few teachers (including myself) which has choosen LibreOffice as an office applications teaching base. 10 years ago even a paper text book was published in Lithuania containing explanations and examples with MS Office and OpenOffice in parallel. Now sadly it is in significant part outdated and currently we have no full range replacement. The situation could be comparable in other European countries and maybe wider in the world. Such thoughts so far. Antanas Budriūnas -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
