Textbooks aren't for you

Life at school can be difficult:

• Teachers have a limited amount of attention to spend on each pupil, and each pupil often has their own set of needs that the teacher has to take into account.
• School budgets are under pressure, so classes have to be bigger and fewer teachers can be hired. Bigger classes means less time spent on each pupil.
• Textbooks are made for classes and not for individual pupils.
• Textbooks are expensive to make and expensive to buy.
• Some schools are required to buy the textbooks they're using, with the budgets that already are too small.

So there's room for improvement. Let's see if we can fill some of that room.

What can we do about this?

We want to let publishers and others offer textbooks that can be customized to the individual needs of the pupils and their teachers – This is the core goal of the Kaizendo project.

But writing books like that is undoubtedly time-consuming, difficult and probably way too expensive.

To manage this anyway, we're creating a tool that lets textbook authors run their won book projects where anyone who care can give their contextual feedback, and where they can share the burden of writing it among volunteer experts, teachers and enthusiasts.

For great success, each textbook project needs to be easily kept up-to-date, relevant, and have aspects. Each aspect of a text is a variation on the text where the variation/aspect conveys the purpose of the text, but in a way that is better suited for one or more specific need.