Using the wikemedia software, California Department of Education is saving tons of money by using open knowledge. They provide with opensource textbooks to solve multiple problems they had in the past.

This is a GREAT lesson to Mexican Education Department, which still lack of sustainable way to keep an updated curriculum. And provide with copy right protected material.

Between some of the benefits for California State we have:
1) the complete elimination of the current $400M+ line item
for California’s K-12 textbooks;

2) a significant increase in the range of content afforded to California’s K-12 textbooks;

3) a permanent end to California’s textbook shortages; and

4) creation of fully portable content holdings database that scales with classroom technologies as they are introduced.

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I read a bit more, and so it happens they are better organized than i first thought. They include content standards and publish thei content on wikibooks in order to share their content with everyone. They rule…