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Topic: California Open Source Textbook Project


  
  Open content
Open content, coined by analogy with open source, describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and video that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the information.
Like the debate between the titles "open source" and "free software", open content materials can also be described as free content, although technically they describe different things.
For example, the Open Directory is open content but is not free content.
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/o/op/open_content.html   (281 words)

  
 Ed-Tech Insider: Bootstrapping Open Curricula: A Practical Proposal
There is a lot of talk about generating curricula using open source methodologies, that is, roughly, allowing free distribution of curriculum materials while inviting outside contributions to the work, both on the grassroots level and engaging some big guns like IBM and the Hewlett Foundation.
It would be easy to imagine that because open source software development takes place between loosely connected developers collaborating over the internet, that the first steps in starting an successful open source project would be a long discussion over ends and means involving as many potential actors as possible.
And the California Open Source Textbook Project is currently designing a 10th grade history curriculum using wikibooks.
www.eschoolnews.com /eti/2006/03/001323.php   (1731 words)

  
 Integral Visioning - Michel Bauwens: Foundation For Peer To Peer Alternatives Newsletter Issue 114
Open source hackers are concerned about building services on Google Maps because Google owns the underlying data - Jimmy believes that hackers will build their own maps database and start creating GIS and GPS enabled services on top of this data.
One example is OSCar, or Open Source Car, the development of a state of the art fuel cell vehicle which will be licensed freely to any social entrepreneur and can be produced on a scale orders of magnitude smaller than typical car manufacturers, such that it is appropriate for regionally-appropriate development.
Of all the open source licenses, the GPL is the most widely used and is the most influential.
www.integralvisioning.org /article.php?story=p2p114   (6626 words)

  
 Open - Pharmpedia
Open content, coined by analogy with "open source," (though technically it is actually (share-alike) describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and video that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the information.
The words "open content" were first put together in this context by David Wiley, then a graduate student at Brigham Young University, who founded the OpenContent project and put together the first content-specific (non-software) license in 1998 with input from Eric S. Raymond,Tim O'Reilly, and others.
Much of the ideals of the open source movement was led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
www.pharmpedia.com /Open   (751 words)

  
 California USA Education? All Showcase America | California Education information, links and web resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Rankings of the top California K-12 public schools based on API scores published on December 18, 2003.
California Student Survey - Office of the Attorney General
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www.allshowcase.com /North_America/California/Education   (499 words)

  
 Textbook Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Textbook Revolution has stopped maintaining its own list of these materials and now contributes directly to this wiki-based list of Open Educational Resources.
useful reference tools and free books that aren't textbooks
A list of useful reference books and links to other free book sites.
www.textbookrevolution.org /links   (166 words)

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