Tired of investing in expensive textbooks and proprietary software programs, Florida education officials are looking to an open online-learning platform to teach young students basic reading skills....
FreeReading.net is a free, sequential, research-based reading intervention program designed for students in kindergarten through first grade....
The site’s content is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License....
[Co-founder and CEO Larry Burger] said he believes FreeReading.net can help free up funding for other services that can improve teaching and learning....
Florida has adopted FreeReading.net on its short list of K-3 supplemental reading programs....This is the first open instructional program to be approved through an official state adoption, officials said....
Berger said Florida’s decision suggests state officials understand how the current practice of K-12 education being “wedded to the traditional model of educational publishing, in which textbooks are updated and reprinted every five to seven years, and schools pay as much as $150 for a single book,” is outdated....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/29/2008 11:55:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
