richard baraniuk rice university open educational resources building communities and sharing...
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Richard Baraniuk Rice University
Open Educational Resources
Building Communities and
Sharing Knowledge
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Karen dropped out of community college because hertextbook costs > tuition bill
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Eric has to purchase teaching materials out-of-pocket for his class due to
slashed school budgets
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Carla has to share her math textbook with her classmate because there
aren’t enough to go around
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Kelly wonders whether Pluto will be reinstated as a planet
by the time it’s removed from her school’s science textbooks
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Rashid is examining some of the
109,263 errors recently found in textbooks under review by the Texas State Board of Education
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Patrick is struggling to understand Newton’s laws of motion from the
text, formulas, and static pictures in his textbook
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Juan’s parents can’t help him with his homework because they
don’t read English
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John is astonished to learn that the book he published three years ago
is already out of print
Bonvin, Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell, 1876
vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date
inexpensive
vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date
inexpensive
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vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date
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open educationcreateripmixburn
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
bookshelf
closed $
slow
page interconnected global repositoryopen sourcefreefast
1. liberate textbooks
authorretainstheircopyright
but opensaccessviaopenlicense
2. invite participation
日本語
english
Українська
hausa français
español
لعربية
inclusive communities
grassroots networks
organizations
தமி�ழ
Connexions repository cnx.org
textbook / course
personalized courses
reuse materials
textbook pipeline
authoring
editing
quality control
publishing
distribution
open education ecosystem
authoring
editing
quality control
publishing
distribution
feedbackpeersuserslearning
open access movement
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anyone can become an author…
create
stanfordillinois
michiganwisconsinberkeley
ohio statega tech
uteprice
cambridgenorway
italy
unintended consequences
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create
Catherine Schmidt-Jones
create
Catherine Schmidt-Jones
9 million page views to date
many byUS teachersand faculty
but alsoMongolia…
create
Sunil Kumar Singh
create
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anyone can translate, customize, …
rip
Univ. Texas-El Paso
rip
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assemble a customized text, …
complete K-12 curriculum
initially science and math for 9 grades (April 2009+)
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anyone can print their own textbook
print customized textbooks
modularauthored by communitycontinuously updatedpersonalized on assemblypublished on demand
print customized textbooks
modularauthored by communitycontinuously updatedpersonalized on assemblypublished on demand
low costex: 600-page textbook for $31, not $131
sustainability revenue
Connexions’ growth
Usage per month:1 million unique users45 million hitsfrom 200 countries
450+ open textbooks8000+ Lego modules
from faculty, teachers, professionals,students, parents worldwide
in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese …
[January 2009]
open education opportunities
open accessfree on-linelow-cost in printnever out-of-print high-qualitycontinuously updatedtranslated
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the road
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technologycreateripmixburn
Web 1.0 OER 1.0broadcastaccess
Web 2.0 OER 2.0remixcommunity
Web 3.0 OER 3.0feedbackintelligent
Web 1.0 OER 1.0broadcastaccess
Web 2.0 OER 2.0remixcommunity
Web 3.0 OER 3.0feedbackintelligent
Web 1.0 OER 1.0broadcastaccess
Web 2.0 OER 2.0remixcommunity
Web 3.0 OER 3.0feedbackintelligent
semantic / active content
Mathematics Markup Language (MathML)
semantic / active content
semantic / active content
Chemistry Markup Language (CML)
semantic / active content
Music XML
Sledgehammer
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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 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
$31 (600 pages)
software
textbooks
music
long tail publishing
long tail
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HarryPotter
Hypergeometricpartial differentialequations
long tail publishing
long tail
$
radiohead: in rainbows
new business models
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, …
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
adding value
business model:
make the textbooks freeearn $ from supplementals
quality
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quality controlinclusive, open-contribution policy
quality controlinclusive, open-contribution policy
quality controlinclusive, open-contribution policy
PLAGIARIZED!
quality controlinclusive, open-contribution policy
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:
for-profit lens
for-profit lens
open issues
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open issues
interplay between open education and open access scholarly articles
impact on tenure/promotion
integration with intelligent e-learning systems (cognitive tutors)
roadblocks: fragmentation of IP, technology
you!
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get involved!
adopt an open textbook
mix your own customized textbook
contribute your knowledge to the commons
educate your colleagues re open access
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acknowledgements
Thanks to…
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Rice University for their strong support