{"id":14324,"date":"2011-01-27T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14324"},"modified":"2011-01-27T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:55:30","slug":"who-needs-textbooks-how-washington-state-is-redesigning-textbooks-for-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/27\/who-needs-textbooks-how-washington-state-is-redesigning-textbooks-for-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Who needs textbooks? How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/education.newsweek.com\/2011\/01\/25\/who-needs-textbooks.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Who needs textbooks?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Newsweek.com<br \/>\nHow Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/education.newsweek.com\/content\/education\/2011\/01\/25\/who-needs-textbooks\/_jcr_content\/body\/mainimage.img.jpg\/1295999927287.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Who needs textbooks? How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age.\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Jessie Sellers, a student at Tacoma Community College in Washington state, was puzzled when he logged onto his school\u2019s website last December to figure out which book he needed for his upcoming  English class. Whereas for all his previous courses, the 24-year-old  education major could simply click on a link to view the name of the  required textbook, this time there were no books listed at all. It was  no mistake: thanks to an ambitious pilot program aimed at reducing the  cost of textbooks at public colleges, Sellers and hundreds of other  students across the state won\u2019t have to buy textbooks for more than  three dozen courses offered this winter.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Washington\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/opencourselibrary.wikispaces.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Course Library<\/a> is the largest state-funded effort in the nation to make core college  course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class.  Financed with $750,000 from the state of Washington and a matching grant  from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, the goal isn\u2019t just to  reduce student costs, says program architect Cable Green. It\u2019s also to  create engaging, interactive learning materials that will help improve  course completion rates. By the time the project is completed in 2012,  digitized textbook equivalents for some 81 high-enrollment classes will  be available online for the more than 400,000 students enrolled in  Washington\u2019s network of community and technical colleges. Even better,  the materials can be shared across the globe, largely for free, because  they will be published in an open format that avoids the most onerous  licensing restrictions. To keep costs at a minimum, the teachers  developing the materials are relying primarily on either existing  material in the public domain or embarking on the painstaking task of  developing materials from scratch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs textbooks? &#8212; from Newsweek.com How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age. Jessie Sellers, a student at Tacoma Community College in Washington state, was puzzled when he logged onto his school\u2019s website last December to figure out which book he needed for his upcoming English class. 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