[Osdc-edu-authors] e-text licensing
Mike Shumake
teacherthinking at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 17:36:10 UTC 2011
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>That's an excellent reply
Karsten, and I'm sorry I didn't have time to address the email I got a while
back concerning e-texts being a panacea for education. Allow me to try to
respond to both here.
According to the link above, we have free license with flexbooks to share
and adapt the work. I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, that
noncommercial use means that we could not take their flexbooks, adapt them,
and then sell them... we couldn't sell them at all, let alone sell them to
the state as part of an e-text solution. I'm attaching a pdf on the types
of open education resources... It does not mean that we can't use them in
classes that we are getting paid to teach.
For perspective though, we aren't really talking about adopting flexbooks
out of the box. The governor's e-learning committee is looking at what's
out there and either adapting what is available or learning from what's
available to create something new like what Ross White and Melissa Thibault
created at Learn NC. Learn NC created an e-text for NC History and
outlined a budgeted plan to create more of these etexts for the state. I
wish I had the link to this text!! I will check and see if I can find it.
As to the other email from Alleghany, I appreciate your insightful
thoughts. I do not think that etexts are a panacea to education; I'm just
trying to address our little corner of industry change. I will say that I
think buying printed textbooks over and over is a waste of money. We spend
about $650 per high school student every 4 years on textbooks. I think we
have an obligation to taxpayers in the state to spend their money wisely,
and I think we have an obligation to students to keep pedagogical practices
engaging, current, and effective. I will never argue that breakfast isn't
important, and I will also never argue that the most important factor in a
student's education isn't the teacher. But let's agree that teachers and
the teaching profession need to adapt and evolve, and that technology is an
important part of 21st century learning... and the 21st century work force.
I'm trying very hard to not make a botch job of my little part of this
recommendation, and I appreciate everyone's remarks and help on this forum.
As to that little part of the recommendation:
Does anyone else have any thoughts on the educational value of e-texts? I
can think of access being an advantage; it's more likely a student will be
able to access an e-text on his/her mobile when carrying a pack full of
books around isn't realistic. I think that interactivity is also an
advantage; it's likely that an e-text solution will contain formative
assessment within the actual text. Also, e-texts can be written with
flexibility that will better meet iep's, multiple intelligences, and student
learning styles. Last, e-texts will contain multi-media that is high
quality and engaging; students can listen to an audio book for English while
they mow the lawn, and they can watch high quality productions from national
geographic to connection in World Geogrpahy classes... any other ideas?
thanks,
-shu
Mike Shumake, MSA
NCVPS Teacher/Evaluator
Evergreen District, Wa English
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> From: Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>
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> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:19:18PM -0500, Mike Shumake wrote:
> > I've been looking at these flexbooks, and I like that they are cross
> > platform and customizable with rights freely distributed. Take a minute
> to
> > look at the video tutorial. I *think* I saw an html add button in the
> > content editor, which would be crucial for 21st century e-texts; they'd
> have
> > to incorporate embeddable web 2.0 tools. The flexbooks are still flat
> and
> > lacking engaging media though. Also, the flexbook ck12 library isn't
> nearly
> > comprehensive enough to be a one-stop solution for NC's e-text
> > needs.
>
> In addition, they are not really free and open content because they
> are under the CC NC (non-commercial use) license.
>
> http://www.ck12.org/about/about-us/technology
>
> I think it's fine for us to write articles about such non-free content
> for opensource.com in talking about the landscape, but we should make
> it clear in the article what the concerns and situation are with the
> NC license. We need to be _very_careful_ not to equate this type of
> content directly with open source because it has a field-of-use
> restriction that makes it not open source!
>
> For those unfamiliar with the problems of the NC license choice, here
> is a good place to start:
>
> http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC
>
> To be clear, one can always contact CK-12 to obtain a license for
> commercial use. The argument is that many won't bother, will be
> chilled by the NC license, and in concern their usage might be a
> violation ("I'm paid to teach, is that a commercial usage if I bring
> this in to my classroom?") won't even use the materials. Also, the NC
> clause inhibits any sort of derivative remixing of the content with
> other works that are CC licensed but without the NC clause.
>
> - Karsten
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