Re: wikibooks being used

Honestly, I would be surprised if there were any such schools using
open textbooks. This whole movement is still very young, and there
aren't a lot of books yet that are in high-quality condition. Even
when a book is found that is high-quality, it is singular and not part
of a larger collection. Schools tend to like to get all their books
from a single source, and don't want to have to pick and choose the
best books from a dozen or more sites.

Wikibooks obviously doesn't have many books that are currently usable
in a classroom, maybe not any depending on the particular requirements
teachers have. We have books with lots of prose but with few
examples/problems. Things like that are going to keep us from being
adopted by schools.

However, we do have things coming through soonish, like automatic PDF
export and flagged revisions that will increase our appeal to schools.
Of course, whether or not we can market that is a different story.

--Andrew Whitworth

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Allen Majorovic <amajorov-/[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, I signed up for the list just recently and my interest is in finding schools - K-12 schools in the U.S., preferably Michigan - that are using open textbooks.
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> Is anyone keeping track, trying to keep track, of actual usage of open textbooks?
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> Thanks
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> Allen
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