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