Brian @ CLRN

The San Francisco Chronicle’s June 3rd article, “Free digital book plan costly, educators say“, is a well intentioned but misguided attempt to think deeply about the Governor’s Free Digital Textbook Initiative. Unfortunately, the article’s author fails to consider a variety of factors: What is the current state of textbook publishing?; What are the factors that [...]

California’s free digital textbook reviews have started quickly out of the gate. Within 24 hours of the press release which called for submissions, four content developers created publisher accounts and a fifth has expressed interest. In addition, the first submission of free digital textbook for review has been completed. We should note, though, that of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]