{"id":466,"date":"2008-09-14T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2008-09-14T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T11:35:08","slug":"ck-12-next-generation-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/14\/ck-12-next-generation-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"CK-12 Next Generation Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nCame across CK-12<\/a> whilst looking for information on tools and approaches used to help learners achieve their goals. It also appears as though their textbooks are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike<\/a> license, but I need to confirm this. It’s a really interesting project and one I’ll be watching closely:\n<\/p>\n

\nOur mission is to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide, but also to empower teacher practitioners by generating or adapting content relevant to their local context. Using a collaborative and web-based compilation model that can manifest open resource content as an adaptive textbook, termed the “FlexBook”, CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality, locally and temporally relevant, educational web texts. The content generated by CK-12 and the CK-12 community will serve both as source material for a student’s learning and provide an adaptive environment that scaffolds the learner’s journey as he or she masters a standards-based body of knowledge, while allowing for passion-based learning\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also found the following Google talk that provides some useful background information from the creators of the project<\/p>\n

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Came across CK-12 whilst looking for information on tools and approaches used to help learners achieve their goals. It also appears as though their textbooks are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license, but I need to confirm this. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382,399,345],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal","tag-talis","tag-xiphos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}