richard baraniuk rice university the open education movement: transforming the economics and ecology...

Richard Baraniuk Rice University

The Open Education Movement: Transforming the Economics

and Ecology of Education

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Bonvin, Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell, 1876

motivation – 1999

difficult to connect across concepts, courses, grades, curricula

– ex: mathematics <> engineering <> technology <> policy– K <> 12 <> college <> graduate school <> lifelong learning

difficult to build communities, collaborations among experts, faculty, students– most potential authors shut out– glacial time scales of development and updating

high cost and limited access of high-quality textbooks and learning materials

vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date

inexpensive

createripmixburn

createripmixburn

vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date

inexpensive

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

bookshelf

closed $

slow

page [XML modules]

interconnected global repositoryopen source [Creative Commons license]

freefast

1. liberate course materials

Connexions repository

textbook / course

personalized courses

reuse materials

authorretainstheircopyright

but opensaccessviaopenlicense

2. invite participation

日本語

english

Українська

hausa français

español

لعربية

inclusive communities

grassroots networks

organizations

தமி�ழ

textbook pipeline

authoring

editing

quality control

publishing

distribution

open education ecosystem

authoring

editing

quality control

publishing

distribution

feedbackpeersuserslearning

open access movement

createripmixburn

anyone can become an author…

create

stanfordillinois

michiganwisconsinberkeley

ohio statega tech

uteprice

cambridgenorway

italy

create

Catherine Schmidt-Jones

9 million page views to date

many byUS teachersand faculty

but alsoMongolia…

create

Sunil Kumar Singh

create

ripmixburn

anyone can translate, customize, …

rip

Univ. Texas-El Paso

rip

createrip

mixburn

assemble a customized course, …

createripmix

burn

anyone can print their own textbook

print customized textbooksmodularauthored by communitycontinuously updatedpersonalized on assemblypublished on demand

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

sustainability revenue

print partner: QOOP.com

long tail publishing

publish on demand

changes the economics of publishing

disintermediation“Craig’s List-ization”

long tail

$

HarryPotter

Connexions

Connexions’ growth

Usage in October 2008

1 million users45 million hits

from 200 countries

380+ textbooks/courses/collections

7000+ Lego modules (October 2008)

4000 in Science, Technology, Mathematics3000 in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Business

from authors worldwide

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

the road

createripmixburn

increasing openness

transparency

radiohead: in rainbows

adding value

“there’s plenty of room at the bottom”

publishers as redhat’s

adding value to open materials

print on demand

university presses

closed, downsized, restructured

Rice University Press (closed – 1996)

University of Idaho Press (closed)Northeastern University Press (closed)University of Georgia Press (downsized)University of Iowa Press (downsized)University of Washington Press (downsized)Texas Tech University Press (downsized)Stanford University Press (restructured)University of Michigan Press (restructured)

rice university press

Rice University Press reopened and reinvented as all digital press within Connexions (2007)

RUP collaborations/joint publications

– Stanford University Press– Smithsonian Press– Long Tail Press

– Mellon Foundation– Hewlett Foundation

$10 + shipping

CCOTPFoothill-De Anza Community College

Siyavula

marthapedia

“If you know how to take red wine out of a white cloth napkin better than I do, then that’s good to know.

We’ll be editing user content and it won’t be as freewheeling as Wikipedia. You really have to monitor this.”

[Wired August 2007]

quality

createripmixburn

quality control

must be scalable

peer reviewexclusive

communityinclusive

lenses

social software for quality control inspiration:

cnx.org/lenses/johnDoe

univ.edu/cnx

IEEE.org/cnx

cnx.org/lenses

coming soon:

for-profit lens

for-profit lens

dangers

fragmentation due to incompatible

IP

technology

you!

createripmixburn

get involved!

adopt an open textbook for your course

mix your own customized textbook

contribute your knowledge to the commons

educate your colleagues re open access

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cnx.org

Richard Baraniukrichb@cnx.org

Joel Thiersteinjt2@rice.edu