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By sleslie on edtechpost (blog), Feb 14, 2012. In this post on authoring "open textbooks," the author looks at the process of book sprints, which were borrowed from coders in the open source and hacker communities. In a book sprint, a group of interested participants come together with the goal of creating a book (or book-like) project. In addition to a very general outline of the process, the post recommends some tools that a group might use, as well as a link to some sample books.

Both the tools and the process seem interesting. How might this process be applied to a KPI project...in lieu of a Jam? In conjunction with a Jam? As the Jam take-away?

By Joe Wikert, part of the TOC podcast series, on O'Reilly Radar, April 2 2012. Wikert interviews Hugh McGuire, founder of PressBooks, a newly developed publishing platform. PressBooks, which will be available both to commercial publishers and to the general public, uses WordPress as a CMS/platform on which to put a Book together. The output can be a printed Book, an e-Book, or a podcast. This page provides an intro to the podcast, including the major themes of the approach (and the time-stamps for each).

An interesting idea, particularly for self-publishing.

By Jabari Mahiri, published by Digital Culture Books, University of Michigan Press, 2011. This Book documents a collaboration between a university and a local public high school, where the high school teachers "extended their own professional learning to revitalize learning in their classrooms." The collaboration was called TEACH (Technology, Equity, And Culture in High-performing schools). The Book is offered free, through this web page.

"As of June 2 2011, all PDFs of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) will be downloadable free of charge." -- more than 4,000 titles. This site is now an excellent resource for free e-books.

By Colin Harrison in Education and the Knowledge Society: Information Technology Supporting Human Development by Tom J. van Weert, October 2004 (Springer, via Google Books).  Harrison's article is pp 244-246. He looks at how an online barter system (like his proposed Cybertroc) might facilitate ride-shares. One interesting idea is how this barter might help to build social capital in the area in which it is implemented and provides an interesting service to some who might otherwise be uninterested in "Information Society." Frustratingly, no details on the implementation of such an idea, other than to refer readers to a ride-share enacted during a 2003 French transportation strike. 

Originally prepared by Robin Good and Daniele Bazzano for MasterNewMedia, and first published on June 29th, 2009. This guide offers some of the advantages of self-publishing, along with reviews of 15 companies that produce self-published books.

By Rosemary Luckin, published by Routledge (UK), April 2010. Luckin is Professor of Learner-Centred Design at the London Knowledge Lab. This book has just been released in the UK, and may not yet be available in US markets or libraries.

This is the table of contents (in draft form) from the pre-publication version of Open Innovation, edited by Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Joel West, and published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Each chapter title links to the PDF of the draft version of the chapter. For more information on the book, including how to find the finished version, click on the home page link at the bottom.

By Virginia Heffernan in Opinionator in the New York Times. A review of Cathy Davidson's new book,Now You See It. Heffernan's review suggests that Davidson's new book argues that we not hold current students to out of date standards for education. Educators must not just embrace new technologies, but understand the position of these technologies in the changing world. Follow the davidson tag for her blog.

Davidson's new book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, was released in August 2011. Here, on her blog, you can learn more about the book and her thoughts on education and technology.

Posted by Seth Godin on Seth's Blog, October 16 2008. This page links to Godin's published (print) book, Tribes, as well as the e-book by and about his online "triiibe" group. For more, follow tags godin or tribes

Edited by Terry Freedman and published on Informations and Communications Technology (ICT) in Education: The Educational Technology Site, March 2010. This is a really great e-book (free, downloadable PDF) which organizes Web 2.0 education projects by grade level, including a section for adult learners, and a section of resources. There are links to all projects and analysis and self-reflection by the project creators.

Edited By Larisa Shavinina, Universite du Quebec, Canada. Book description on publisher's website.\nOn Worldcat - http://bit.ly/a2Ro6m

This page describes Community Innovation, a book written by Pete Plastrik and Theodore Staton. The title is in question (an image of the book's cover refers to Innovation Communites)., but this page provides a description, as well as links to e-chapters, as they become available (as of April 2010, the introduction and first 4 chapters are available).

Resources for "makers," DIY folks who innovate, create and share projects & ideas. These resources include a subscription based magazine, a blog, videos & podcasts, shared project ideas, a forum/community and a store. Additionally, Maker Faire is an annual conference for the Make audience. Make Magazine, published quarterly by O'Reilly is a hybrid magazine/book "(known as a mook in Japan)".

Innovation Communities Teamworking of Key Persons - A Success Factor in Radical Innovation, Klaus Fichter and Severin Beucker (Eds.). Berlin: New York: Springer, 2012

Interviewed by Leonard Lopate on The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, Sept 4 2012. Listen or stream from this page. Tough has a new book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. In this interview, he discusses the importance of these "character traits" both in terms of pre-K and later in terms of high school and college persistence.

WHEN a college textbook, "Principles of Biology," comes out from the Nature Publishing Group in January, one place it won't be is on the shelves of school bookstores. Enlarge This Image An interactive graphic in "Principles of Biology," an electronic textbook from Nature Publishing, teaches students about the symptoms of a stroke. Enlarge This Image An interactive graphic from Wolfram Research lets readers change the display parameters of an oil spill. That's because the book was designed to be digital-only. Students will pay not for a printed edition at a bookstore, but for permanent access on the Internet ($49).

This edition of UPDATE focuses on partnerships, beginning with an interview with Dr. Gene Bottoms, founder of High Schools That Work (HSTW). Dr. Bottoms provides important insights into the ways partnerships were used to create HSTW, as well as the ways they are necessary to involving high schools and community colleges in the implementation of Programs of Study. This volume also includes two invited articles, one by Dr. Pamela Eddy, College of William and Mary University, and Dr. Marilyn Amey, Michigan State University, that give OCCRL readers a glimpse into their new book on partnerships and collaboration, and a second by Dr. Louise Yarnell, who shares a model that she and her colleagues at SRI are developing for the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

By Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996. This book forwards the idea of qualitative researchers using a single data set analyzing using a number of different techniques.