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The CK-12 Foundation:From Textbooks to FlexBooks
Nassau BOCESOctober 15, 2009
What is the CK-12 Foundation?
VISIONUniversal access to K-12 educational content that is
free, standards-aligned, high quality and customizable.
MISSIONCK-12 is dedicated to providing online, up-to-date,
standards-aligned, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) content for free to all K-12 students around the world.
CK-12: Free textbooks (Flexbooks)
• completely free online, or print-on-demand at cost, save as pdf
• freely licensed under CC-By-SA
• standards aligned
• quality assured
• Customizable using our online software
CK-12 FlexBooks OfferedCA Standard Aligned Books• Math Grade 6• Math Grade 7• Math 8• Algebra I • Geometry • Single Variable Calculus • Trigonometry• Math Analysis • Probability and Statistics (AP)• Life Science • Earth Science • Biology I • US History Supplement• People’s Physics Book
Additional Books• Engineering: An Intro for HS• NanoSense Student Materials• Electricity and Magnetism • Optics • The Modern Revolution in Physics • Conceptual Physics • Discover Physics • Virtual Chemistry Ver 2.1 Part I
• Phase 1: Outlining
• Phase 2: Author Implementation
• Phase 3: Quality Assurance
• Phase 4: Transition to User Community
FlexBook Development Process
recruitauthors
manuscript#2
review
Authoring & Review Process
domainexperts
publish
synthesize
manuscript#1
copy editing
share
CK-12 submitted 7 FlexBooks to the Initiative• Single Variable Calculus, Geometry, Trigonometry, Life
Science, Earth Science, Chemistry, and Biology• 3 of CK-12’s book met 100% of the CA Standards• Remaining 4 scored from 83 to 95%.
• The review results are available at http://www.clrn.org/fdti
• The books are all available at http://about.ck12.org
• Several of these books are being piloted in classrooms throughout CA for the ‘09-’10 academic year.
CA Free Digital Textbook Initiative
The Cost to Produce a Textbook
Can we pay the teachers more instead?
Students Comments
“Examples motivate and grasp the interest of the student. CK12's textbooks are interesting, high
quality, and amazingly free of busywork
a perfect combination for me and many others.”- Bradley
"For textbooks they’re pretty engaging, and I like how they walk you through everything.”
- Emily
Flex Your Own Books
Flexible OptionsPrint content at home or at school
Print and bind books with a professional vendor
A design to enhance bound books
A Flexbook 3 ring Binder
Commonwealth of VA
2 yr Study by NASAGovernor's Mandate7% Qualified to Teach Nanotech
by Commonwealth of Virginia & CK-12 Foundation
• David Armstrong • Jim Batterson • Mark Clemente• Angela Cutshaw• Bruce Davidson • Mike Fetsko• Pranav Gokhale • Andy Jackson • Tapas Kar• Mark Mattson • Gregory Mulholland • Tom O’Neil • John Ochab • David Slykhuis• David Stern• Tony Wayne
VA Releases Open-Source TextbookMarch 6th, 2009
An open source textbook is more than a book - Posted by Dana Blankenhorn, ZD Net
”What may be most remarkable here is the timeframe.”
“And the resulting book can be updated, rewritten, on a regular schedule so it’s new with each school year.”
“The contrast with current K-12 textbook acquisition methods is night-and-day. No multi-year lead times. No publisher control. And the approval process is also flexible. “
FlexBooks are:
• collaborative
• online
• free & open
• customized
• standards aligned
