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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

Richard Baraniuk richb@cnx.org

Joel Thierstein jt2@rice.edu