{"id":207,"date":"2009-10-12T07:27:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-10-12T07:32:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:32:52","slug":"how-conventional-do-open-textbooks-need-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/207","title":{"rendered":"How &#8220;conventional&#8221; do open textbooks need to be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on some product plans and business models for open textbooks in K-12 and have been t<span><span>hinking a lot about how &#8220;textbook-like&#8221; they need to be to get broad adoption.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>A lot of the work in OER is reform-driven, and in fact, the most substantive reasons to produce and use OER are pedagogical, not cost-driven. OER allows innovative teachers and learners to differentiate instruction in exciting ways. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Many in OER have questioned whether new open core curriculum should even be called &#8220;textbooks&#8221; at all.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Still, I&#8217;m not sure that an the best path for anew entry is to be hugely innovative.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>The first and important goal for a significant new entry into the open ed market should be broadscale use. And the textbook adoption process in K-12, whether in formal adoption states or open states, is such that an innovative product is not likely to even be considered in many places, much less be broadly used.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>I know this firsthand, having created some very innovative products that were used by few.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An important note, for those motivated by reform, is that <strong>those<\/strong><span><span><strong> who are prone to innovate will do so regardless of the raw materials and\/or environment<\/strong>. They are doing so now with very conventional materials (although in many cases illegally with great technical difficulty and huge personal time expenditures). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Providing high-quality open curriculum gives these innovators new resources with which to innovate. Providing open curriculum in a conventional textbook format gives traditional teachers a path to future innovation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Now I&#8217;m thinking about how these materials might look like a conventional textbook but also be packaged with a toolset that allows for more innovation when users are ready. Stay tuned for more on that.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on some product plans and business models for open textbooks in K-12 and have been thinking a lot about how &#8220;textbook-like&#8221; they need to be to get broad adoption. A lot of the work in OER is reform-driven,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,5,6],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-k-12","tag-oer","tag-textbooks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-3l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}