314 the open access education revolution richard baraniuk
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Richard Baraniuk
Rice University
The Open Access
Education Revolution
vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date efficient effective
create
share
use freely
re-use openly
vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date efficient effective
create
share
use freely
re-use openly
vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date efficient effective
create share
use re-use
freely openly
why?
today’s textbooks/courses lock up educational ideas
– closed formats
– closed copyrights
create share
use re-use
freely openly
why?
today’s textbooks/courses lock up ideas
– not efficient
– not affordable
– not accessible
create
share
use freely
re-use openly
vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date efficient effective
open education
OE
enablers
enabler 1: technology
Web/XML
common framework for sharing
Internet
virtually free distribution
virtually infinite, permanent storage
OE platform – primordial state
textbook / course
personalized courses
reuse materials
enabler 2: new IP
intellectual property and copyright
make content safe to share
common legal vocabulary
inspiration: open-source software (Linux)
author retains their copyright
but opens access via open license
(CC-BY)
500+ million licensed works
text music audio images video art …
(CC-BY)
read ccLearn on: “Why CC-BY”
today’s textbook pipeline
authoring
editing
quality control
publishing
distribution
open education ecosystem
authoring
editing
quality control
publishing
distribution
feedback
peers users learning
OE
examples
Connexions (cnx.org)
non-profit open education platform
founded 10 years ago
connecting ideas
900 open textbooks/courses
15000 Lego modules
free on-line
low-cost in print
Connexions (cnx.org)
usage per month: 1.2 million unique users 58 million hits from 190 countries
non-profit open education platform
founded 10 years ago
connecting people
contributors worldwide
in many languages
Community College Open Textbook Project
100+ CC’s in USA and Canada
developing a suite of free open textbooks
Government of Vietnam
developing new curriculum at 40 universities
Siyavula / Shuttleworth Foundation
complete K-12 curriculum for South Africa
IEEE
educational outreach in electrical engineering
quality review of open materials
some Connexions partners
efficient
stanford illinois
michigan wisconsin
berkeley ohio state
ga tech utep rice
cambridge norway
italy
accessible
unexpected consequences
Catherine Schmidt-Jones
private music teacher, USA
music theory textbooks
Sunil Kumar Singh
engineer and parent, India
physics textbook
unexpected consequences
Catherine Schmidt-Jones
private music teacher, USA
music theory textbooks
15 million uses to date
Sunil Kumar Singh
engineer and parent, India
physics textbook
4 million uses to date
outreach
inreach
OE
the road ahead
interactivity
see
do
interactivity
see
do
semantic / active content
Mathematics Markup Language (MathML)
open education
open research
open education
capetowndeclaration.org
open research
OA legislation
medical research is a public good
US NIH OA Mandate
UK Wellcome Trust OA Mandate
OE legislation
US state e-textbook initiatives in CA, VA, WA, …
US President Obama’s AGI
$50m for community college open textbooks
Open College Textbook Act, US Senate (Durbin)
textbooks and learning materials a public good;
materials developed with government support (NSF, NIH, DOE, …) to be OE
Dutch Wikiwijs project (OE mandate)
Q: is OE financially sustainable?
Q: is the status quo sustainable?
textbook prices have risen 4x faster than inflation for well over a decade
publishers are pricing themselves out of the market
sustainability
computer hardware and software
textbooks
music
newspapers
Q: is OE financially sustainable?
A: OE (can be) compatible with
for-profit publishing
enables commercial entities
to add value to OERs and
sustain the community
sustainability
Q: is OE financially sustainable?
A: OE (can be) compatible with
for-profit publishing
enables commercial entities
to add value to OERs and
sustain the community
sustainability
chris anderson
OE
quality control
quality control
must be scalable
peer review exclusive
community inclusive
lenses
social software for quality control
inspiration:
cnx.org/lenses/
johnDoe univ.edu/cnx
IEEE.org/cnx
cnx.org/lenses
coming soon:
OE
opportunities
OE opportunities
outreach – access to all free on-line
low-cost in print never out-of-print supports (in)formal learning
inreach – owned by all
more diverse materials
community involvement teacher/faculty involvement
ecosystem continuously updated customizable, translated high-quality based on open standards
