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Jimmy Wales Joins Open Textbook Organization

By Dana Oshiro / July 21, 2009 9:47 AM / View Comments

wales_wikipedia_jul09.jpgWikipedia and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales has just joined the advisory board of CK-12 Foundation - a nonprofit organization that provides standards-aligned online textbooks to kindergarten to grade 12 students. One key element of the organization includes offering "FlexBooks" - a product that allows educators and students to create and edit their own open-content teaching materials. Users can add chapters to existing texts or create completely new material using the Flexr tool.

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