{"id":7441,"date":"2010-07-21T16:26:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T20:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2010-07-21T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T20:27:10","slug":"educational-and-cost-effectiveness-oer-vs-traditional-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/07\/21\/educational-and-cost-effectiveness-oer-vs-traditional-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational and Cost Effectiveness: OER vs Traditional Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Educational and Cost Effectiveness: OER vs  Traditional Textbooks\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/opencontent.org\/blog\/archives\/1537\">Educational and Cost Effectiveness: OER vs  Traditional Textbooks<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from iterating toward  openness<\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-head --><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;BYU has just received a  grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The pilot project  will examine the deeper learning and cost savings that can be achieved  when open textbooks replace traditional, expensive textbooks in public  high school science classrooms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">15-20 public high school science teachers in Utah will replace their  expensive, traditional textbooks with open textbooks from <a onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','ck12.org']);\" href=\"http:\/\/ck12.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CK12.org<\/a> for the 2010-2011 school year. Approximately 2,000 students will be  impacted by the changes. Most will use printed versions of the books,  while a few hundred students in one-to-one schools will use the online  versions of the books on netbooks or iPads. Teachers will continue to  supplement the CK12 books with additional resources and activities just  as they have historically supplemented expensive, traditional textbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educational and Cost Effectiveness: OER vs Traditional Textbooks &#8212; from iterating toward openness &#8230;BYU has just received a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The pilot project will examine the deeper learning and cost savings that can be achieved when open textbooks replace traditional, expensive textbooks in public high school science classrooms. 15-20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,76,83],"tags":[4,77,611,643],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-12-related","category-open-courseware-and-systems","category-science","tag-k-12","tag-ocw","tag-science","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7443,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}