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Open Textbooks Win Over Publishers In CA
Unequivocal writes "Recently California's Governor announced a free digital textbook competition. The results of that competition were announced today. Many traditional publishers submitted textbooks in this digital textbook competition in CA as well as open publishers. An upstart nonprofit organization named CK-12 contributed a number of textbooks (all free and open source material). 'Of the 16 free digital textbooks for high school math and science reviewed, ten meet at least 90 percent of California's standards. Four meet 100 percent of standards.' Three of those recognized as 100% aligned to California standards were from CK-12 and one from H. Jerome Keisler. None of the publisher's submissions were so recognized. CK-12 has a very small staff, so this is a great proof of the power of open textbooks and open educational resources."
Makes my day complete
your first fail.
Not necessarily. Said it was their first post and their day was complete. Didn't say anything about it being the first post of the thread.
Assumption Fail.
Wasn't (and isn't) Catholicism the European religious monopoly? A "nobody was ever fired for buying IBM^W^Wbeing Catholic" kind of option? The lazy that participate in religion only because of peer pressure would naturally gravitate towards the option where most of the peer pressure is pushing them.
I imagine you'd end up with something resembling a four-person volleyball team consisting of enthusiast that meet weekly vs. a six-person volleyball team that has 4 enthusiasts and two people that don't really want to be there and only hinder their teammates, but stay because of their teammates' coaxing.