DocumentCode
549426
Title
Collaborative open textbooks for Latin America - The LATIn project
Author
Ochôa, Xavier ; Sprock, Antonio Silva ; Silveira, Ismar Frango
Author_Institution
Inf. Technol. Center, Escuela Super. Politec. del Litoral-ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador
fYear
2011
fDate
27-29 June 2011
Firstpage
398
Lastpage
403
Abstract
This paper presents the Latin American Open Textbook Initiative, which aims to help to solve the problem of the high cost of textbooks for higher education in Latin America. The main goal is the creation of a supporting architecture, methodologies and policies for the dissemination of cooperative open textbooks aimed for higher education, customized specifically for the region.
Keywords
educational aids; further education; publishing; LATIn project; Latin American Open Textbook Initiative; collaborative open textbook; cooperative open textbook dissemination; higher education; Collaboration; Media; Open textbooks; collaborative content creation; crowdsourcing; mashups;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Society (i-Society), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location
London
Print_ISBN
978-1-61284-148-9
Type
conf
Filename
5978479
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