richard baraniuk open access educational publishing
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Richard Baraniuk
open accesseducational publishing
open educational resources (OER)
technologyweb, internet,databases, …
intellectual propertyopen-source licenses for contentmake content easy and safe to
share
digital open publishing platformfounded at Rice University in 1999
open to all to use/contribute
1400 open texts/collections23,000 educational Lego blocks40 languages
millions of users per monthfrom 190 countries
economics gone awry
Mark Perry, American Enterprise Institute, January 2013
USA student debt over
$1,000,000,000,000
70% of college students forgo buying texts
78% of those students believe they will perform worse as a result
24% of students take fewer credit hours due to expense
the OER chasm
OER 1.0
crossing the OER chasm
OER 1.0
crossing the OER chasm
OER 1.0 OER 2.0
library of 25 high-quality, free college textbooks
open college textbooks
high quality professionally authored professional production values peer reviewed
turnkey adoptable text + ancillaries multiplatform
free/open available in Connexions
open college textbooks
venturephilanthropy
ROI in student savings
progress to date
phase 1(published)
phase 2(2013/15)
484 adoptions70k students$7.1M saved
3.5M unique web users500K full text downloads
Tacoma CCAnna Arundel CC
Dalhousie UniversityCentral Florida State
Massachusetts Bay CC
UMass AmherstU OklahomaU GeorgiaUT AustinUC Irvine
…
partners drive scaling and sustainability
openeducationthe road ahead
openeducationthe road ahead
disruptive^
textbookslearning
new business models
computer hardware and software
textbookslearning music
newspapers
broader access
open textbooks
massive open online courses (MOOCs)
rich data
data (massive, rich, personal)
close the learning
feedback loop
rich data and feedback
curriculum(re)design
personalizedlearning pathways
cognitive science research
big data
cycles ofinnovation
renaissance
imagine a world…
where millions of students worldwide have free and open access to a library of high-quality learning experiences
where outstanding teachers have access to a global classroom
where every textbook is a personalized tutor
where data helps us invent new ways to teach and learn
further readingopen education
– R. G. Baraniuk, “Opening Education,” The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering, 2013.
– R. G. Baraniuk and C. S. Burrus, “Global Warming toward Open Educational Resources, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 51, No. 9, September 2008.
– U. P. Dholakia and R. G. Baraniuk, “The Roles of Social Networks and Communities in Open Education Programs,” in Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies, S. Hatzipanagos and S. Warburton, eds., IGI Global Publishing, 2008.
– R. G. Baraniuk, “Challenges and Opportunities for the Open Education Movement: A Connexions Case Study,” in Opening Up Education — The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, T. Iiyoshi, M. S. Vijay Kumar, eds., MIT Press, 2008.
open licenses– R. G. Baraniuk, “How Open are Open Educational Resources?” Domus (Italy),
923(03/09), March 2009.
future of peer review / open science– C. Kelty, C. S. Burrus, R. G. Baraniuk, “Peer Review Anew,” Proceedings of the
IEEE, June 2008.– cnx.org/lenses– IEEEcnx.org