May
28
Free Digital Textbook Initiative
May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments
While I’ve written at length about Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class book, another disruptive innovation on the horizon is digital textbooks and a related disruption, open source digital textbooks. On May 6th, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched an initiative to make California the first state in the nation to offer schools free, open-source digital textbooks for high [...]
May
28
Governor Schwarzenegger, Superintendent O’Connell, and the State Board of Education have announced the Free Digital Textbook Initiative, a project to provide a list of standards aligned free digital textbooks for high schools that cover the course content in mathematics and science subject areas.
The California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) is responsible for reviewing these materials to [...]
May
27
CLRN: Web Information Link Pages Redesigned
May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Today CLRN released a complete redesign to our Web Information Link pages. In order to provide users with better information about each web link and provide an easier viewing experience, we’ve added a screen shot within each WIL page.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fbbridges51.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F05%2F27%2Fclrn-web-information-link-pages-redesigned%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘CLRN%3A+Web+Information+Link+Pages+Redesigned’;
addthis_pub [...]
