richard baraniuk rice university open access education building communities and sharing knowledge

Richard Baraniuk Rice University

Open Access EducationBuilding Communities

and Sharing Knowledge

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Bonvin, Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell, 1876

motivation – 1999

difficult to connect across concepts, courses, grades, curricula

– ex: mathematics <> engineering <> technology <> policy– K <> 12 <> college <> graduate school <> lifelong learning– curricular stove-piping– disintegration of ideas

difficult to build communities, collaborations among experts, faculty, students– many potential authors shut out– inefficient: no economies of scale– glacial time scales of development and updating

high cost and limited access of high-quality textbooks and learning materials

motivation – 1999

difficult to connect across concepts, courses, grades, curricula

– ex: mathematics <> engineering <> technology <> policy– K <> 12 <> college <> graduate school <> lifelong learning– curricular stove-piping– disintegration of ideas

difficult to build communities, collaborations among experts, faculty, students– many potential authors shut out– inefficient: no economies of scale– glacial time scales of development and updating

high cost and limited access of high-quality textbooks and learning materials

motivation – 1999

difficult to connect across concepts, courses, grades, curricula

– ex: mathematics <> engineering <> technology <> policy– K <> 12 <> college <> graduate school <> lifelong learning– curricular stove-piping– disintegration of ideas

difficult to build communities, collaborations among experts, faculty, students– many potential authors shut out– inefficient: no economies of scale– glacial time scales of development and updating

high cost and limited access of high-quality textbooks and learning materials

vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date

inexpensive

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vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date

inexpensive

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

bookshelf

closed $

slow

page [XML modules]

interconnected global repositoryopen source [Creative Commons license]

freefast

1. liberate course materials

Connexions repository

textbook / course

personalized courses

reuse materials

authorretainstheircopyright

but opensaccessviaopenlicense

200+ million licenses

textmusicaudioimagesvideoart …

open access movement

democratization – knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use

draws inspiration from open-source software Linux, Apache, Mozilla, Firefox

enabled by recent developments in info tech

2. invite participation

日本語

english

Українська

hausa français

español

لعربية

inclusive communities

grassroots networks

organizations

தமி�ழ

knowledge ecosystem

日本語

english

Українська

hausa français

español

لعربيةதமி�ழ

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anyone can become an author…

create

stanfordillinois

michiganwisconsinberkeley

ohio statega tech

uteprice

cambridgenorway

italy

create

Catherine Schmidt-Jones

600,000+ page views per month

many byUS teachersand faculty

but alsoMongolia…

create

Sunil Kumar Singh

create

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anyone can translate, customize, …

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Univ. Texas-El Paso

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assemble a customized course, …

“For our teachers, one size never fits all”

Jane Goodall International Spokesperson for TWB

mixTeachers Without Borders

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Selected Partners

growth

Usage September 2007

600k+ users20 million hits

2.5m page viewsfrom 200 countries

250+ textbooks/courses/collections

4500+ Lego modules (September 2007)

3000 in Science, Technology, Mathematics1500 in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Business

from authors worldwide

in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese …

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anyone can print their own textbook

print customized textbooks

modularauthored by communitycontinuously updatedpersonalized on assemblypublished on demand

low costex: 300 page hardbound textbook for $25, not $125(under $15 for 1000+)

sustainability revenue

long tail publishing

publish on demand

changes the economics of publishing

disintermediation“Craig’s List-ization”

long tail

$

HarryPotter

Connexions

university presses

closed, downsized, restructured

Rice University Press (closed – 1996)

University of Idaho Press (closed)Northeastern University Press (closed)University of Georgia Press (downsized)University of Iowa Press (downsized)University of Washington Press (downsized)Texas Tech University Press (downsized)Stanford University Press (restructured)University of Michigan Press (restructured)

rice university press

Rice University Press reopened and reinvented as all digital press within Connexions (2007)

RUP collaborations/joint publications

– Stanford University Press– Smithsonian Press– Long Tail Press

– University of Michigan Press– Chicago University Press– Columbia University Press– Texas Medical Center– National Academies– Carnegie Foundation– Hewlett Foundation

$10 + shipping

quality

createripmixburn

quality controlinclusive, open-contribution policy

quality controlinclusive, open-contribution policy

quality controlinclusive, open-contribution policy

PLAGIARIZED!

quality controlinclusive, open-contribution policy

quality control

Connexions: inclusiveopen-contribution policy

how to find high quality materials?

what is quality? who decides? who is the expert?must be scalable

peer review Wikipedia bloggers

lenses

social software for quality control inspiration:

cnx.org/lenses/johnDoe

msu.edu/cnx

IEEE.org/cnx

initiatives

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CNX current initiatives

open-source toolsXML authoring, course-building, quality control lenses, printingdistributed and federated repositories (CNX as a platform)

outreachUSA, Latin America, China (OOPS), Japan (TI), Vietnam (VEF) North Korea (PUST)

content projectsK-12 textbooks and teacher materials “top 10” community college coursesopen textbooks for colleges worldwideuniversity press consortiumcorporate knowledge management, education, and training

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cnx.org

Richard Baraniukrichb@cnx.org

Joel Thiersteinjt2@rice.edu

the road

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textbook pipeline

authoring

editing

quality control

publishing

distribution

open education ecosystem

authoring

editing

quality control

publishing

distribution

feedbackpeersuserslearning

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

increasing openness

transparency

adding value

publishers as RedHats

adding value to open materials

hyperlocality

the new newspaper industry

1. involve reader in every aspect of the process

2. hyperlocal editionsCincinnati Enquirer:

from 1 metro edition to 270 niche publicationsw/ user generated content

[Wired August 2007]

marthapedia

“If you know how to take red wine out of a white cloth napkin better than I do, then that’s good to know.

We’ll be editing user content and it won’t be as freewheeling as Wikipedia. You really have to monitor this.”

[Wired August 2007]

dangers

fragmentation due to incompatible

IP

technology

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