Sun makes case for free online textbooks

Gary Sandler writes:

Here is an interesting
report from ZDNet on Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy’s
call for freely available online educational materials for schools.

The effort, called the
Global Education and Learning Community (GELC), produces curriculum materials such as online books for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. McNealy envisions the replacement of expensive and quickly out-of-date textbooks by shared online instructional materials, testing, grading and assessment tools, all created by experts.