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Polish Government To Deliver Free Textbooks For All Kids Grades 4-6
rekrutacja writes "Today the Polish government started a Digital School pilot program, which includes distributing e-textbooks. This came after a years-long effort by the Open Education Coalition and its members to persuade policy makers, that Open Educational Resources are the future of education. The last few months have been especially eventful, as the free textbooks part of the program was dropped by the Ministry of Education and reinstated again by the Prime Minister Office."
from the article (in Polish):
all these resources will be available under CC BY, which is compliant with the Definition of Free Cultural Works.
yeah since they are available as CC-BY with sources that means any reader
from the site with the books http://wolnelektury.pl/
PDF to print
EPUB for an e-book reader
MOBI for Kindle
TXT for advanced usage
and
Source of the book
Source XML file
Book on Editor's Platform
Mix this book
If you think that free textbooks for kids is what bankrupted Greece then you are being naive. This has been standard practice even before Greece joined the EU and is a direct follow-up of the Greek constitution. Oh, and you might want to look up on how this systems works in Greece before posting further comments.
For the record, I agree with you on taxes and spending. You just have to apply this concept to sections of the budget like "military spending" and "Olympics 2004". And don't get me started on corruption, bad management and the like...
That is so true! I feel really bad because now you exposed all my dirty secrets. I lobbied governement all those years to accept this program exactly yesterday, because i want to advertise on Slashdot, and win all those 1% donations. I will use this money for champagne, caviar and orbital trips. I'm also a member of Majestic 12, and work for New World Order, for full disclosure :-)
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