Re: [libreoffice-website] LibreOffice For Schools

On Thursday, March 20, 2014 02:54:40 PM you wrote:
> 2014-03-15 6:56 GMT+02:00  <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>:
> > Is anyone interested in creating a LibreOffice for Education Text Book
> > project?
> >
> > This can and probably should be setup as its own working group.
> >
> > The California Open Source Textbook Project http://www.opensourcetext.org/
> > Is currently seeking Open Source Text Books for The California Public
> > Schools K-12. They require the material to be presented in a Text Book
> > style. This would be a good way to get LibreOffice into Word Processing
> > Classes in California High Schools as well as schools around the world.
> >
> > College Open Text Book http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ Is also
> > seeking
> > Text Books for use in Colleges, This would be a good opportunity to get
> > LibreOffice into College's across the US!
> >
> > Open Text Book Library is another College Initiative
> > http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ as well.
> >
> > There are quite a few more of these organizations that partnerships could
> > be established with as well.
> >
> > I have been seeing a number for these popping up and I have seen some that
> > will pay $20,000 USD for Creative Commons Text Book Donations late last
> > year which could be used to help fund the this working group. Community
> > developed software with educational community developed Course-ware would
> > work out pretty well.
> >
> > These initiatives would require producing a full text book with exercises
> > etc.
> >
> > As The LibreOffice Software already has an unbeatable low cost all we are
> > missing to take over the education sector is unbeatable low cost
> > course-ware to go with it.
> >
> > Establishing a full LibreOffice For Education program with the goals of
> > not only producing the text books but also full courses and possibly
> > Moodle course ware, Produced courses could even potentially be made
> > available at edX https://www.edx.org/ (Which has a Free Into To Linux
> > Course this year for those who have not registered for it yet.) It is a
> > $2,400 course normally taught by The Linux Foundation.
>
> The subject is indeed very important and TDF should pay serious
> attention toward this.
> Situation in many countries are heavely influenced by MS lobbyists.
> Fortunately the K-12 curriculum in Lithuania's state education system
> is open to software alternatives. I know personally few teachers
> (including myself) which has choosen LibreOffice as an office
> applications teaching base.
> 10 years ago even a paper text book was published in Lithuania
> containing explanations and examples with MS Office and OpenOffice in
> parallel. Now sadly it is in significant part outdated and currently
> we have no full range replacement.
> The situation could be comparable in other European countries and
> maybe wider in the world.
>
> Such thoughts so far.
>
>
> Antanas Budriūnas

I have only found one commercial publication that is mostly directly geared to 
LibreOffice in the USA It is a getting started guide for migrating to OpenOffice 
but also includes LibreOffice content.

Currently many US State ran school systems are moving to open text books 
published as Creative Commons so their is a great opportunity. Some US schools 
have ousted Microsoft due to cost constraints, some have been migrating to 
Google for Education services and Chromebooks.

I have a cousin that teaches Business Finance Accounting, Computer Classes and 
Math for a PA state high school. I sent him and email to find out what they are 
using. Some schools in the US I know are still using old versions of Word 
Perfect for Word processing classes.

Even if the schools are using Chromebooks they can easily use LibreOffice 
through VNC.

I know their is one commercial provider of a web based LibreOffice on the 
internet that works with Google Chromebooks but it is an older version and is 
a paid service after a small try for free period. Has their been any official 
push of a Document Foundation LibreOffice Web project? It would also be a good 
time to start this as well as Microsoft , Google etc have web based office 
offerings on the market already. 

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