[Athen] CA Digital Textbook Initiative

[Sean J Keegan]

The California Governor's Office released information about the Digital 
Textbook Initiative for K-12 and which companies have met the state 
content standards.

http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/12996/

Interestingly, the non-profit organization CK-12 
(http://about.ck12.org/) had three textbooks that met 100% of the state 
content standards.  CK-12 has an open-content model with the materials 
licensed under a Creative Commons-Share Alike license.  Other open 
content educational systems (i.e., Connexions) also did well in some 
subject areas.

This certainly does address one issue that comes up in discussions that 
"open-source" educational materials are not capable of meeting the 
academic rigor necessary for state or other educational standards.


Take care,
Sean

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