Could wikis help college students in developing nations get hold of otherwise hard-to-acquire textbooks? Rick Watson, the director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Information Systems Leadership, is determined to find out.
Mr. Watson has founded the Global Text Project, which is recruiting scholars to contribute to a collection of books that will be made available free online, according to United Press International. The books—which will focus on subjects familiar to freshmen and sophomores—will be developed with the same software that Wikipedia, the popular open-source encyclopedia, uses for its articles. —Brock Read
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