Closing Down the Edu-TF

Everyone:

We launched the PCG Education Taskforce last September with the goal of
answering the question: "What does Education want from the Web?" Since then
we've had some interesting and lively discussions, brought forth some use
cases around accessibility, storing and manipulating annotations
independently of a Reading System, extracting sub-sections of an EPUB, and
immersive content in scholarly publishing. We've also seen some demos of
exciting and innovative ways members of our community are creating
engaging, interactive content in web and EPUB based products.

But on the whole, the answer to the question: "what does education want
from the web?" is "not much". Addressing some of the use cases requires
support from third party platforms like eReaders, for others the solutions
do exist but are just not well known or socialized. And while we've brought
forth a few use cases to the PCG we've struggled over the last several
months to advance any new ones, so it's time to bring this task force to an
end.

I want to thank those who were regular participants in the PCG-Edu-TF
meetings and who brought forth use cases. I really enjoyed the engaging
sessions and learned some new and exciting things. Special shout-out to
Susan Neuman for acting as scribe on several meetings and taking
extraordinarily accurate notes, and to Charles L and Tzviya for helping me
navigate irc.

It's been a pleasure leading this task force, and I look forward to further
engaging discussions in the PCG.

All my best,
*Paul*