CK-12 Presentation to Nassau BOCES

The CK-12 Foundation:From Textbooks to FlexBooks
Nassau BOCES
October 15, 2009

What is the CK-12 Foundation?
VISION
Universal access to K-12 educational content that is free, standards-aligned, high quality and customizable.
MISSION
CK-12 is dedicated to providing online, up-to-date, standards-aligned, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) content for free to all K-12 students around the world.

CK-12: Free textbooks (Flexbooks)

completely free online, or print-on-demand at cost, save as pdf
freely licensed under CC-By-SA
standards aligned
quality assured
Customizable using our online software

CK-12 FlexBooks Offered
CA Standard Aligned Books

Math Grade 6
Math Grade 7
Math 8
Algebra I
Geometry
Single Variable Calculus
Trigonometry
Math Analysis
Probability and Statistics (AP)
Life Science
Earth Science
Biology I
US History Supplement
People’s Physics Book

Additional Books

Engineering: An Intro for HS
NanoSense Student Materials
Electricity and Magnetism
Optics
The Modern Revolution in Physics
Conceptual Physics
Discover Physics
Virtual Chemistry Ver 2.1 PartI

FlexBook Development Process

Phase 1: Outlining
Phase 2: Author Implementation
Phase 3: Quality Assurance
Phase 4: Transition to User Community

Authoring & Review Process
recruitauthors
domainexperts
manuscript#1
review
synthesize
copy
editing
manuscript#2
publish
share

CA Free Digital Textbook Initiative
CK-12 submitted 7 FlexBooks to the Initiative

Single Variable Calculus, Geometry, Trigonometry, Life Science, Earth Science, Chemistry, and Biology
3 of CK-12’s book met 100% of the CA Standards
Remaining 4 scored from 83 to 95%.
The review results are available at http://www.clrn.org/fdti
The books are all available at http://about.ck12.org
Several of these books are being piloted in classrooms throughout CA for the ‘09-’10 academic year.

The Cost to Produce a Textbook

Can we pay the teachers more instead?

Students Comments
“Examples motivate and grasp the interest of the student. CK12's textbooks are interesting, high quality,
and amazingly free of busywork
a perfect combination for me and many others.”
- Bradley
"For textbooks they’re pretty engaging, and
I like how they walk you through everything.”
- Emily

Flex Your Own Books

Flexible Options
Print content at home or at school
Print and bind books with a professional vendor
A design to enhance bound books
A Flexbook 3 ring Binder

Commonwealth of VA2 yr Study by NASAGovernor's Mandate7% Qualified to Teach Nanotech

by Commonwealth of Virginia & CK-12 Foundation

David Armstrong
Jim Batterson
Mark Clemente
Angela Cutshaw
Bruce Davidson
Mike Fetsko
Pranav Gokhale
Andy Jackson
Tapas Kar
Mark Mattson
Gregory Mulholland
Tom O’Neil
John Ochab
David Slykhuis
David Stern
Tony Wayne

VA Releases Open-Source Textbook
March 6th, 2009
An open source textbook is more than a book
- Posted by Dana Blankenhorn, ZD Net
”What may be most remarkable here is the timeframe.”
“And the resulting book can be updated, rewritten, on a regular schedule so it’s new with each school year.”
“The contrast with current K-12 textbook acquisition methods is night-and-day. No multi-year lead times. No publisher control. And the approval process is also flexible. “

FlexBooks are: