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

crises

Karen dropped out of community college because hertextbook costs > tuition bill

crises

Eric has to purchase teaching materials out-of-pocket for his class due to

slashed school budgets

crises

Carla has to share her math textbook with her classmate because there

aren’t enough to go around

crises

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

createripmixburn

inexpensive

open educationcreateripmixburn

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

bookshelf

closed $

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

createripmixburn

anyone can become an author…

create

stanfordillinois

michiganwisconsinberkeley

ohio statega tech

uteprice

cambridgenorway

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

create

ripmixburn

anyone can translate, customize, …

Univ. Texas-El Paso

createrip

mixburn

assemble a customized text, …

complete K-12 curriculum

initially science and math for 9 grades (April 2009+)

createripmix

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

create rip mix burn

the road

createripmixburn

technologycreateripmixburn

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)

Chemistry Markup Language (CML)

Music XML

Sledgehammer

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

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

publishers pricing themselves out of the market

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

long tail publishing

long tail

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

createripmixburn

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

open issues

createripmixburn

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

createripmixburn

get involved!

adopt an open textbook

mix your own customized textbook

contribute your knowledge to the commons

educate your colleagues re open access

capetowndeclaration.org

create rip mix burn

cnx.org

Richard Baraniukrichb@cnx.org

Joel Thiersteinjt2@rice.edu

acknowledgements

Thanks to…

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Rice University for their strong support

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