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词条 FlexBook
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  1. Features

  2. Licensing

  3. Examples of use and collaboration

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}FlexBook is a textbook authoring platform offered by the CK-12 Foundation. Launched in 2008, FlexBooks reduce the cost of textbooks for the K-12 market both in U.S and worldwide. Derived from the words "flexibility" and "textbook," a FlexBook allows users to produce and customize content by re-purposing educational content using different modules. FlexBooks can be designed to suit a learner’s learning style, region, language, or level of skill, while adhering to the local education standards.[1]

Features

FlexBooks are designed to overcome some of the limitations of traditional textbooks. Anyone – including teachers, students, and parents - can adapt, create, and configure a FlexBook.[2]

Some FlexBooks features include:

  • Web-based collaborative model, where the user can create and edit content to produce a custom textbook[3]
  • Open Educational Resource(OER) which allows for easy remixing of content
  • Available in PDF, HTML, ePub (for iPad) and AZW (for Kindle)

Licensing

Each CK-12 FlexBook is created under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) License,[4] giving its author/user a right to share (i.e., right to copy, distribute and transmit the work) a right to remix (i.e., right to adapt the work). However, conditions of Attribution and Non-commercial apply.

Examples of use and collaboration

In March 2009, FlexBook was lauded as “an adaptive, web-based set of instructional materials” by Virginia officials when members from Virginia’s K-12 physics community along with university and industry volunteers developed an eleven chapter FlexBook titled “21st Century Physics FlexBook: A Compilation of Contemporary and Modern Technologies” in just 4 months.[5] In September 2010, NASA teamed up with CK-12 to add a chapter on “modeling and simulation” to the existing Physics FlexBook created earlier.[6] In November 2011, teachers from a school district, Anoka-Hennepin, Minnesota, reportedly, saved the district $175,000 by writing their own online textbook instead of buying $65 textbooks – earlier, costing the district to the tune of $200,000.[7] Wolfram has teamed up with CK-12 to produce interactive FlexBooks with Wolfram demonstrations embedded into the FlexBooks.

See also

  • OpenCourseWare
  • Open educational resources
  • Open textbook
  • Bookboon
  • China Open Resources for Education
  • Connexions
  • Curriki
  • Flat World Knowledge
  • Free High School Science Texts South Africa
  • Khan Academy
  • MIT OpenCourseWare
  • National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning India
  • Open.Michigan
  • Tufts OpenCourseWare

References

1. ^[https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/9378/ Creative Commons]
2. ^About us
3. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20090907monday.html NY Times]
4. ^[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Licenses]
5. ^OER Consortium
6. ^NASA News, NASA teams with ‘CK 12’ Foundation on Physics FlexBook (2010). Retrieved November 18, 2011
7. ^HuffingtonPost

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.ck12.org}}

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