Tom sent me an article that follows up on my question about why education isn't moving online as quickly as I'd expect.  Apparently the state of California is going to start using open source, digital textbooks in public schools.

There's one really obvious point the article makes that I didn't mention in my earlier post.  Online education doesn't just save money for the students, it saves money for the schools.  I was assuming that this change would start in college because the students are consumers at that point and they should be able to force the change.

It makes a lot more sense for the change to start in middle school and high school.  An entire state can save hundreds of millions of dollars with one decision where as college students individually can only have so much of an impact.

Anyway, it's good to see that California is taking a step in the right direction (even if it was forced upon them by crippling budget problems).  Hopefully it works out so that other states can follow suit.