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Re: Open Textbooks

by Mark Burnet -
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The time to create these materials is huge. And getting volunteers to commit and produce them requires either self motivated passion or some arm twisting.
We are trying to produce K-12 books with the moodle test banks included.
Using CC 2.5+ articles, graphics and art is a great starting point for these projects.
Currently we are working an Earth Science, Biology and Calculus books, with the 2nd two, just in the early stages. A fourth grade Virginia Studies book has been outlined and the assessments started.
As all the material is either public domain or Creative Commons, it is easy to track what is shareable. We use an Alfresco repository with Dublin Core tags on the different parts, so we could track copyrighted material too, but we choose not to include these materials.
If anyone is serious about participating (especially K-12 educators), please let me know and I can provide access to our system. http://voef.org/projects.html
I also have just put up an open sharing spot here: http://izcool.ning.com/