Rating Collaborative Textbook Development

Brendan Borrell at Scientific American has a new article discussing how well collaborative textbooks fared in California’s recent selection of electronic textbooks (reported by OEN). Borrell’s conclusion is that the more ‘wiki-like’ the development, the poorer it did in California’s selection process. From the article:

So far, the front-runners were typically written by just one or several authors, and the one major organization that has fully embraced a Wiki approach failed to impress CLRN reviewers.

Thanks to Internet Savings Network for the link.