What existing texts can we use to base this on? I was sent some links to open textbooks the other day...
Chris Sent from my iPad On 21/03/2014, at 11:12 AM, "Webmaster for Lungstrom.com" <webmas...@lungstrom.com> wrote: > On 03/20/2014 08:54 AM, Antanas Budriūnas wrote: >> 2014-03-15 6:56 GMT+02:00 <timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com>: >>> 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 > > We need these LO school books. > > We get the kids while they are young and then they grow up and use LO as they > "grow", in school and out of school. > > To be honest, if LO does not do this, do you want to bet that AOO might not > as well? We need to stay ahead of the market in this respect and see what is > needed to rewrite the chapters of the "Getting Started Guide" and make them > work for the educational environment, with activities and such, plus some > testing after each chapter. Then have a "teacher's guide" with more samples > of tests and such that would be helpful to a teacher, or a parent. > > I worked as a substitute teacher for a few years and I know that it can be > hard to "get ideas" for activities and tests for a teacher that does not know > the subject "well". I had to do that for a little less than two months in > the first every Forensics course a high school [10-12th grades] tried in my > area when their teacher was late or even "hung over" too many mornings over > the first 3 weeks of class. There were nothing to help, mostly. No > activities to do in class and almost no real test questions in the whole book > that would work for this level of students. > > So we need to make enough helpful materials for a teacher and the students as > we can make and be a part of an "electronic" copy of a book - i.e. PDF file. > Maybe have larger format documents and "things" in a "education" web site for > learning LO as the core of the information. Things that would help the > students, teachers, and parents. Yes, parents since I know many home school > kids with some relatives included. > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: projects+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > 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 > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: projects+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
