richard baraniuk (hhe 3-17-09)

Richard Baraniuk Rice University

A Platform for

Open Education

OERcreateripmixburn

OERcreateripmixburn

Connexions (cnx.org)

Usage per month:1 million unique users45 million hitsfrom 200 countries

475+ open textbooks8600+ Lego modules

from faculty, teachers, professionals,students, parents worldwide

in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese …

textbook pipeline

authoring

editing

quality control

publishing

distribution

open education ecosystem

authoring

editing

quality control

publishing

distribution

feedbackpeersuserslearning

better stronger faster

stanfordillinois

michiganwisconsinberkeley

ohio statega tech

uteprice

cambridgenorway

italy

textbook 2.0

modularauthored by communitycontinuously updatedpersonalized on assemblynever out-of-printpublished on demand

textbook 2.0

modularauthored by communitycontinuously updatedpersonalized on assemblynever out-of-printpublished on demand

low costex: 600-page textbook for $31, not $131

$31 (600 pages)

Vietnam OpenCourseWare

MOET

complete K-12 curriculum

science and math for 9 grades starting April 2009

unintended consequences

createripmixburn

create

Catherine Schmidt-Jones

create

Catherine Schmidt-Jones

9 million page views to date

many byUS teachersand faculty

but alsoMongolia…

create

Sunil Kumar Singh

rip/mix

Univ. Texas-El Paso

outreach

outreach

inreach

Q&A 1still to come:quality control$road blocksopportunities

quality

createripmixburn

quality control

must be scalable

peer reviewexclusive

communityinclusive

lenses

social software for quality control inspiration:

cnx.org/lenses/johnDoe

univ.edu/cnxIEEE.org/cnx

cnx.org/lenses

coming soon

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createripmixburn

Q: are OERs sustainable?

Q: is the status quo sustainable?

price of textbooks has risen 2x faster than inflation for over a decade

publishers pricing themselves out of the market

Q: are OERs sustainable?

Q: is the status quo sustainable?

price of textbooks has risen 2x faster than inflation for well over a decade

publishers are pricing themselves out of the market

software

textbooks

music

long tail publishing

long tail

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HarryPotter

Hypergeometricpartial differentialequations

chris anderson

OER (can be) compatible with for-profit publishing

CreativeCommons-By license allows commercial use

enables commercial entities to add value to OERs

new opportunities for global community engagement via translation, customization, …

adding value

publisher as a redhat

business model:add value to open materials

redhat: $600M/year

revenue in 2008

Linux market: $36B in 2008

adding value

business model:print on demand

OnDemandBooksEspresso Book Machine

1 cent/page

road blocks

createripmixburn

fragmentation

technologyhtml, xml, pdf, ppt, doc, flash, mpeg, …

intellectual property

Connexions

technologyhtml, xml, pdf, ppt, doc, flash, mpeg, …

intellectual property

opportunities

efficient and effective content development & use- enormous teacher/faculty development opportunity

breaks down curricular stovepipes - within and across institutions- K-12 <> community college <> university- engages a global community

flexible formats: web, print (local), iPhone, …- bridge paper into free interactive materials

built-in quality review structure via lenses

high-quality K-12 content available now

global, permanent impact for any investment

recommendations

do– bring Washington State into the OER age!– launch an OER prototype project– level the publishing playing field to include OER

in state adoption– consider an open-access sunset clause for

learning materials adopted from for-profits – support teachers/faculty thru the transition

please, don’t– (re)invent your own OER repository– choose a restrictive “open” license

(CC-By or PD recommended)

Q&A 2

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cnx.org

Richard Baraniukrichb@cnx.org

Joel Thiersteinjt2@cnx.org