Virginia++Open+Education+Foundation

Virginia Open Education Foundation Mark Burnett
 * Many laws that inhibit the introduction of open source textbooks
 * Looking where a locality could produce locally
 * Provides flexibility
 * Can then customize textbooks around your instruction
 * [|http://jcotsopeneducation.blogspot.com]
 * May get a change iin the definition of what is a textbook
 * Workbooks and CDs would be more than supplements
 * What can do?
 * Promote the creation open resources - 21st century concept
 * Awareness of the Creative Commons license
 * Support efforts to expand the definistions of textbooks
 * Promote the state of shareable resources
 * [|http://voef.org]
 * "eletronic" books from publishers are nothing more than a pdf of the textbook…interactivity is lost
 * SOL questions are owned by Pearson not by the state..
 * Can only get them on paper