Horner Transcript 11

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Interview with FHSST Founder Mark Horner

Movie 11

Are open textbooks ever complete?

I think a textbook is never complete because the material is always evolving and the way teachers would like to teach it is always changing, especially as new technology becomes available.

So having a textbook, an open textbook which teachers can modify, gives them greater flexibility to cater for those needs, especially if they aren't being catered for by publishers' textbooks.

But we will produce editions of the textbooks as well, fixed versions which can then be printed and distributed and vetted by the department of education. Because the department of education will never vet a dynamic resource. It will only vet a resource which is static, and they can always point to a specific edition of the resource. So we have to cater for both in what we do.