create globally, educate locally. open textbooks, learning objects, and learning solutions going...

Create Globally, Educate Locally

Open Textbooks,Learning Objects,

and Learning Solutions

Going Mobile

Learning environment

•Change = Opportunity

Location of learner

• In class• At home• On the bus• At work• ....

Time of learning

• Time of day• Length of time in one sitting• Time between sittings• Time of life

Lifelong learner

Type of learner

• New markets– Global– Access– Customized

Type of learning

• Blended learning– Based on learner– Based on subject matter

Type of learning

• Just in time learning

Ideas Information

Concepts

Module

CoursesTextbooks

Authors

Instructors

Learners

Knowledge Repository

Online version

Download and print

Buy hard copy

Online View

Connexions Growth

Over 16,000 modules woven into nearly 1000 collections

7700 in Science, Technology, Mathematics4600 in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Business

35,000+ versions of modules

from over 1000 authors worldwide in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese …

Monthly Usage Approximations: 1.5 million + visits

70 million + hits3.5 million + page views

from 190 + countries

Nearly 1000 different collections (textbooks, courses, reports,

manuals) in Connexions

+ Chemistry, Electronics, Ethics, Physics,

LabVIEW, Art History, Galileo, World History...

Existing Content

Modularization

Ideas Information

Concepts

Module

CoursesTextbooks

Authors

Instructors

Learners

Knowledge Repository

Openness

Create

Capturing the power of Web 2.0 while maintaining quality

• Social networking v. quality

Lenses

Lenses

Social Software For Peer ReviewScalable And Distributed

Rice University

Florida NCPEA

Permanent Versioning

Frictionless Remixing

The Technology

XML

OAI-PMH

The Most Open License

CC-BY

Customization

LIGHTWEIGHT BRANDING

Branding – Full Customization

ZONING

Children

Enterprise Rhaptos

Distribution

Online version

Download and print

Buy hard copy

Online View

Multiple formats

XML

Business Model

Content Creation

Content Maintenance/Update

Delivery Platform Maintenance

Enterprise Rhaptos

Delivery Platform Upgrade

Turning Those Changes in Latitude...

Into Changes in Attitude

Access to Education

Tuitioncost

Textbookcost

Collaborative Statistics

Barbara Illowsky & Susan Dean

Success

44

The customization

Collaborative Statistics Textbook Adopters

Since Fall 2008

– Arkansas Arkansas Tech University

– South Carolina Converse College

– California CSU Dominguez Hills De Anza College Sacramento City College San Diego Mesa College Cabrillo College Lake Tahoe Community College San Francisco State University

– Maryland Frederick Community College

– Canada St. Mary's Collegiate Institute

– Colorado University of Colorado

– Georgia Emory University

– Ohio University of Toledo

– Virginia Virginia Tech University

– New York Borough of Manhattan

Community College Syracuse University SUNY - Purchase College

– Michigan Eastern Michigan University

– Massachusetts Berkshire Community College

– Washington South Puget Sound Community

College – Vermont

Green Mountain College

Collaborative Statistics

• Estimated cost savings to students ~ $200,000 in the first year

• Roughly 50% of students bought a hard copy of textbook

K-12

Improving Quality

Step-Change in Education Quality

• Content freely available and adaptable Capture the intellectual capital of your

state• Content is open and commercializable

Engage commercial content producers to add value

• Base content is freeEducational spending is on learning not

textbooks Step change in education

Improving QualityEverybody gets access to all

content/research immediatelyCapture intellectual capital

Easily Customizable Content Increased academic freedom

More accurate up-to-date materialMore culturally relevant material

Lowering Student Cost Increase in the accessibility to

higher education

Connexions Learning Materials A Powerful Solution

Connexions www.cnx.org

Joel ThiersteinJoel.Thierstein@cnx.org

Supported by theHewlett FoundationMaxfield Foundation