Re: Subtopic: KDE and Ebook --- Spark and KDE and Tablet-Projects for Schools in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony/Germany)

Moinmoin,

calling directly from a workshop with tablet-project-collegues within 
the 'Medienberatung Niedersachsen' (media-consulting Lower Saxony).
> You can not just use some book in school. Every book used in school 
> needs an approval by the department of education of the respective 
> state, called Kultusministerium in Germany. 
and

> You just got it. Linux is not existent as it is, as is now, not DRM 
> aware. And you will not be able to create an alternative ecosystem of 
> open content as you will need the approval of the department of 
> education for that content. There will be no way into the schools 
> without the schoolbook publishers and their content. 

That's only partially right. Meanwhile reality catches up with this 
situation, because so many teachers use internet-content, educational 
contents from broadcasting-stations (TV/radio), private sites and 
community-ressources and so on. And for Niedersachsen there's no 
solution in sight: It seems that there will be two universes with 
different contents: publishing-companies and more or less private 
content, which is intended to be bundled as Open Education Ressourcen 
(OER) and should or will become a part of the 'Merlin' 
Online-Ressources. On education trade fair Didacta2012 German 
schoolbook-publishers didn't arrive an agreement about 
schoolbook-distribution.

The NLQ (Official Institute for management of 
Schoolquality/Niedersächsisches Landesinstitut für schulische 
Qualitätsentwicklung) reviews school books only pro forma currently!

Again the question: Which file-format provides interactive, multimedia 
content independent from platform and is supported by KDE? The lack of 
an official standard could be filled with an open standard!

I hope to see some of you tomorrow@CeBit

Daniel




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