(2010-08-02) Open Source Textbook Status

The status of Open Text Book-s.

“In three and a half years, we have developed nine of the core textbooks for high school,” says Neeru Khosla, VinodKhosla’s wife and the head of CK12. “If you don’t try this, nothing will change.”

Curriki has made only modest strides, but Mr. ScottMc Nealy has pledged to inject new life. He wants to borrow from Sun’s software development systems to create an organized framework for collecting educational information. In addition, he wants the organization to help build systems that can evaluate educational material and monitor student performance. “I want to assess everything,” he says. MR. Mc Nealy, however, has found that raising money for Curriki is tougher than he imagined, even though so many people want to lower the cost of education.