244 – Scaling Open Textbook Variants with PreTeXt and AI

About this episode

Lily and David discuss the conversion of open textbooks into PreTeXt and the management of multiple variants.

Lily and David continue their discussions on converting open textbooks into PreTeXt. They focus on the “Learning Statistics with …” ecosystem, where an original open book has spawned variants for R, JASP, Jamovi, CogStat, French, and potential new versions such as R-Instat. They explore how PreTeXt could better manage multiple independently maintained variants by identifying what differs, easing updates from a base text, and supporting responsible human ownership.

People in this episode

Hosts: Lily, David

Topics covered

• open textbooks
• PreTeXt
• educational variants
• statistics education
• textbook management

Keywords

• open textbooks
• PreTeXt
• R
• JASP
• Jamovi
• CogStat
• R-Instat
• statistics

Mentioned in this episode

Products: PreTeXt, JASP, Jamovi, CogStat, R-Instat

Books & works: Learning Statistics with …

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