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The movement to completely disrupt the textbook market has other players bound for significant traction. One the other hand, cK12, run by Neeru Khosla, is focusing on the k12 market and is perhaps a little further along in product development.

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The best disruptive products usually come from for-profit businesses. However, the CTO of cK12 is Murugan Pal, which should completely render that tendency invalid, at least in this case.

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tiffany — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:08:27 -0000

The gulf between the big textbook publishers and start-ups like Flatworld Knowledge and CK12 is cogently summarized in a recent book by Clayton Christensen, "Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns":

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kate aldadins — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:09:44 -0000

thanks for your post there.

provides a good framework for thinking about disruption. I appreciate you taking the time to insert that comment and I will follow your blog.

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mpstaton — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:19:45 -0000

@Gordon.

Love the post. Christensen, as always, provides a good framework for thinking about disruption. I appreciate you taking the time to insert that comment and I will follow your blog.

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mpstaton — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:18:44 -0000

@bdog,

thanks for your post there. i should have taken the time to fact check that. was in a hurry.

actually, this helps to prove the open source point. you corrected me less than 24 hours after my mistake, and now it's corrected. if there's an error in a textbook, it can't be fixed until next revision (which is going to cost another $100).

Thanks for your knowledge of the tri-state area. I've only been there a few weekends.

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Gordon Rogers — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:38:41 -0000

"There is little dispute among textbook publishers that because individual students learn differently, they need differentiated learning options. But the textbook companies can’t get there from here. Were they to focus on developing different books for each type of intelligence, their volume per title - and their profitability - would decline markedly. Because this is so disruptive to their business models, most of the intellectual and financial energy of this formidable industry focuses on creating and commercializing still more blockbuster books for large, undifferentiated masses of students."
This book is a must read for anyone engaged in the business of disrupting the old model of educational publishing. I have talked with the founders of both organizations mentioned in your post, and I have no doubt they will be among the leaders of the Textbook 2.0 economy (unless they get bought by Pearson first). For more about these start-ups read www.kindlesforkids.wordpres...

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bdog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:13:41 -0000

The concerns I have with "open source" are brought out in your first sentence....
It is Nyack, New York, not Dayac. The bridge is the Tappan Zee Bridge, not the Tapanzee and I have never heard of a part of a bridge being called a mouth. How do you know that the Nyack side is the mouth? I am sure the people across the river in Westchester County will be upset that they are "the butt".
Publishers are accountable for accuracy. I know that the argument for open source is that the contributors will ensure accuracy, but that is yet to be seen.