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Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Subtopic: KDE and Ebook --- Spark and KDE and Tablet-Projects for Schools in Nieders
From: Ulrich Drolshagen <ulrich.drolshagen () bbs1uelzen ! de>
Date: 2012-03-06 19:54:10
Message-ID: 4F566B62.4010906 () bbs1uelzen ! de
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Am 06.03.2012 18:57, schrieb Daniel Rohde-Kage:
>
> That's only partially right. Meanwhile reality catches up with this =
> situation, because so many teachers use internet-content, educational =
> contents from broadcasting-stations (TV/radio), private sites and =
> community-ressources and so on. And for Niedersachsen there's no =
> solution in sight: It seems that there will be two universes with =
> different contents: publishing-companies and more or less private =
> content, which is intended to be bundled as Open Education Ressourcen =
> (OER) and should or will become a part of the 'Merlin' =
> Online-Ressources. On education trade fair Didacta2012 German =
> schoolbook-publishers didn't arrive an agreement about =
> schoolbook-distribution.
That is not new. Teachers have done that former times with chissors, =
glue and photocopier. The new thing is that we digitize the material so =
that it is freely distributable. This is obviously usefull (that's why =
we are doing it) and at the same time highly illegal. The departments =
of education are not willing to pay for this practice so the content =
owners insist on means to control what is stored on our servers. We had =
a discussion about some school trojan crawling school nets for illegal =
content lately.
>
> The NLQ (Official Institute for management of =
> Schoolquality/Nieders=E4chsisches Landesinstitut f=FCr schulische =
> Qualit=E4tsentwicklung) reviews school books only pro forma currently!
>
None the less all books used in public schools need their approval. =
Again, the students will only have one tablet. So this one, no matter =
what else content it will provide, will have to run the apps provided by =
the german schoolbook publishers. Whether we like it or not, there will =
be no way past them even for Apple, Google, Microsoft or whoever. My bet =
is, they talk to Microsoft about Windows 8 right now, as MS has a lot of =
sympathy for the need of the publishers for protecting their content At =
the same time MS is flexible enough not to interfere too much with the =
business model of their partners as Apple would do (they have announced =
their conditions for access to their "book store" already).
Ulrich
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