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

Am 06.03.2012 18:57, schrieb Daniel Rohde-Kage:
>
> 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.
That is not new. Teachers have done that former times with chissors, 
glue and photocopier.  The new thing is that we digitize the material so 
that it is freely distributable. This is obviously usefull (that's why 
we are doing it) and at the same time highly illegal.  The departments 
of education are not willing to pay for this practice so the content 
owners insist on means to control what is stored on our servers. We had 
a discussion about some school trojan crawling school nets for illegal 
content lately.
>
> The NLQ (Official Institute for management of 
> Schoolquality/Niedersächsisches Landesinstitut für schulische 
> Qualitätsentwicklung) reviews school books only pro forma currently!
>
None the less all books used in public schools need their approval. 
Again, the students will only have one tablet. So this one, no matter 
what else content it will provide, will have to run the apps provided by 
the german schoolbook publishers. Whether we like it or not, there will 
be no way past them even for Apple, Google, Microsoft or whoever. My bet 
is, they talk to Microsoft about Windows 8 right now, as MS has a lot of 
sympathy for the need of the publishers for protecting their content At 
the same time MS is flexible enough not to interfere too much with the 
business model of their partners as Apple would do (they have announced 
their conditions for access to their "book store" already).

Ulrich

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