Textbooks and Change

George Siemens has a new post on textbook production and changing the education system. Siemens is critical of the open textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge, arguing that it only provides slight change over the prevailing textbook model. From the post:

It’s too early to convincingly declare select-authorship models of textbooks to be superior to wiki-created textbooks. Or, if we do make the declaration (as Wiley, Benkler and others have done), we need to focus on understanding why.