richard baraniuk (hhe 3-17-09)
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Presentation to the WA House Higher Education Committee re: open educational resources.TRANSCRIPT
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
