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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Information Society (i-Society), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-148-9
