LATin-ALFA

The overall objective of the project is to improve the accessibility to the Latin American University for low-income students, as well as to reduce the dropout rate due to financial reasons. This objective will be reached via the reduction or elimination of the cost of required textbooks that sometimes could represent a significant share of the income of a minimum-salary family. The initiative proposed in this project will result in the regional collaborative creation of textbooks that could be freely and legally copied, printed, modified and distributed to students. These books will have the additional advantages of being easy to update and being in a language that the student could easily understand. The specific objective of the project will be the creation and dissemination of a Collaborative Open Textbook Initiative for Higher Education tailored specifically for Latin America. This initiative will encourage professors and academic authors from different HEIs in Latin America to collaborate with colleagues from other HEIs in the region to create chapters and textbooks tailored for their specific course needs that will be freely available for students to read, print and share, and to other colleagues to adapt, translate, distribute and remix. The project will address the pedagogical, technological and political issues needed for such an initiative to work successfully in Latin American countries. Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa. Alunos envolvidos: Mestrado acadêmico: (1) . Integrantes: Luciano Silva - Integrante / Ismar Frango Silveira - Coordenador / Pollyana Notargiacomo Mustaro - Integrante / Thiago Kuma - Integrante / Xavier Ochôa - Integrante / Antonio Silva Sprock - Integrante. Financiador(es): Comissão Européia - Auxílio financeiro.

2011 - Atual