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June 15, 2004
Open Text Book
The OpenTextBook link popped up on a few weblogs today, but none of them seemed to be the usual ed blog suspects, so here's the link. Or, rather, the link's a few words back.
Basically, they're co-authoring a textbook online, using CVS (not the pharmacy) to check in the changes to the PDF manuscript. Appears to be a math textbook, but works like "algebra" frighten and confuse the English major in me, so I couldn't read much.
I doubt the publishing giants are quaking in their boots, but it's a valiant effort. They should've used a wiki though. Although common among developers, CVS is still fairly rarified for a mainstream educator or student. It pretty effectively limits the people who can contribute. On the other hand, Wikipedia, has turned into an amazing resource, primarily because of the low threshold to contribution.
Posted June 15, 2004 08:07 PM