Innovation — Open, Adaptive Digital Textbooks

Now in early prototype

Unlimited New Textbook Versions in a Single Connected System

No copies, forks or siloes.
Just a connected living textbook infrastructure
that continuously improves for everyone.

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Under the hood

Three Technology Layers, One Unified Architecture

Open, Adaptive Digital Textbooks are made possible by a 3-layer system that enables localisation and adaptation in a single connected textbooks operating environment.

The foundational Resources Library layer holds the ever-expanding suite of high-quality and curated open textbooks, resources, and software that can be selectively shaped into local textbook versions.

The Customisation & Publishing layer allows educators to easily access, make sense of, and apply this complex structured data to create, publish and own locally adapted and customised textbooks variants from a single user-friendly platform.

The IDEMS Middleware layer makes it all possible: It transforms open digital textbooks and resources into malleable, reusable structured data. It creates, manages and maintains coherent meaning between structured Resource Library data and unlimited published textbook variants to maintain systemic interoperability.

The pioneering core

IDEMS Middleware: The Innovation Behind Unlimited Interoperable Versions

This groundbreaking layer makes local customisation and ownership, systemic quality and standards, and global collaboration possible at the same time. The result is a unified, living textbooks ecosystem that makes isolated forks and duplicated efforts a thing of the past.

Global Textbooks Operating Environment — Bounded

Resources Library

Open textbooks, resources and software; not yet structured for adaptation

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IDEMS Middleware

Systemic Meaning-Making

IDEMS IP

IDEMS’ core innovation: Resources Library content, and the complex knowledge about how data must be combined for impact, are transformed into structured data in a unified semantic system.

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Textbooks Brain

Building out of IDEMS’ IP, the Brain holds the newly structured Resource Library data in a novel deterministic core. This expert-maintained core is the foundation of responsible, auditable AI that helps educators and authors make sense of the Brain’s structured, malleable data and easily create new textbook adaptations and versions.

trains

Agentic AI Hands

Developed for narrow use cases, this suite of expert AI agents support textbook publishing, adaptation and iteration by non-technologist educators and authors. Trained on the Textbooks Brain’s high-quality data, AI Hands are bounded, auditable, and resource efficient.

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Customisation & Publishing Hub

Educators create & publish with trained Agentic AI Hands

Local Variants

Unlimited, owned locally

Every arrow runs both ways — local adaptation flows back upstream, continuously structuring and improving the Brain and the Library it draws from.

Inclusive innovation

A New Model of Community-Centred Technology

Software, resources, knowledge, relationships, sense making: all are data, held across communities and roles, at every level of expertise.

Even in large, centralised organisations, designing technology systems to manage this kind of data complexity is a hard problem. Across variable global educational contexts, it’s currently impossible. Existing technologies aren’t built for the distributed ownership and collaboration needed to unlock scattered data and make it accessible–and useful.

IDEMS’ innovation is a new model: technology designed to surface and apply the layered expertise of communities at scale, enabling the right people to affordably access what they need, take ownership to serve their context, and contribute back to a single system that benefits everyone.

Where we are

Now in Prototype & Alpha Pilot

IDEMS invites educators, authors, researchers, and technologists to join our community. The community helps us expand the resources and technology library, test variant functionality, trial textbooks in application in varied educational contexts, and otherwise contribute to making Open, Adaptive Digital Textbooks work for everyone everywhere.

IDEMS is fundraising for mission-aligned grants and social investment to ensure that impact and inclusion remain the focus of our deeply technical innovation. We are open to new ideas for research collaborations to pursue large grants.

Below we have included an early roadmap of innovation milestones and product deliverables. We invite you to share your role and interests so we can include you in tests, trials and pilots as relevant.