The LATin Project seeks to tackle the decrease in textbook use among university students in the region (who favor photocopies), by developing open source textbooks written by Latin American teachers.

“A group of Latin American designers, engineers and pedagogues has come up with a revolutionary open source publishing workflow for production and distribution of digital textbooks. The LATin Project, set up by university researchers from over nine Latin American universities and funded by the European Union, seeks to tackle the decrease in textbook use among university students in the region (who favor photocopies) by developing open source textbooks written by Latin American teachers”.

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