TY - GEN
T1 - Collaborative open textbooks for Latin America - The LATIn project
AU - Ochôa, Xavier
AU - Silveira, Ismar Frango
AU - Sprock, Antonio Silva
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Collaborative content creation
KW - Crowdsourcing
KW - Mashups
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U2 - 10.1109/i-society18435.2011.5978479
DO - 10.1109/i-society18435.2011.5978479
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052575264
SN - 9780956426383
T3 - International Conference on Information Society, i-Society 2011
SP - 398
EP - 403
BT - International Conference on Information Society, i-Society 2011
PB - IEEE Computer Society
ER -