How some countries use open resources in the classroom

Several countries are using open educational resources in schools, including South Africa, where some math and science textbooks were developed from open resources compiled from the Internet and elsewhere. "Rather than follow the book every week, it becomes much easier to take detours or create a completely different course altogether," said Jan-Bart de Vreede, senior product manager for Wikiwijs, an open resource platform created by the Ministry of Education in the Netherlands. Education Week (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org) (2/1) http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/02/01/19el-oer.h31.html?tkn=PXCFpyhxnVo73hIFkgMawNNQf4Y9KdXTepxV&cmp=clp-sb-edtech