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Skills: noneConcepts: evolution of media, experiments with modular teaching material, student-developed teaching material, peer tutoring and very large classes, textbook business opportunity
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Requiem for the textbook
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Where does this topic fit?
• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications
• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills
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The Assassination of the Duke de Guise (1908) Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolff? (1966)
Early movies
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Ed Sullivan Show, 1964 Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, 1953
Early television
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Gutenberg Bible, 1455
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Aldus Manutius,over 50 years later
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Repurposed textbooks
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Repurposed courses
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Faculty and institutional inertia
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Unstructured modules
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A modular course (with a unique business model)
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Student generated material
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Peer teaching and collaboration
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Massive online courses
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Many types of teaching material
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Textbook prices vs. consumer prices
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VC investment in education technology
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Going out of business?
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Summary
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Self-study questions
1. Find a Merlot module that is relevant to a course you are currently taking. Write a brief description of the module and state whether it would be helpful to you? If so, show it to your professor.
2. Find a Kahn Academy module that is relevant to a course you are taking or took in the past. Write a brief description of the module and state whether it would be helpful to you? If so, show it to the professor.
3. Would you be willing to pay $49 for a lifetime subscription to a regularly updated textbook for any course you have taken? Which one?
4. List the advantages and disadvantages of Nature’s electronic text compared to a traditional biology textbook.
5. List the advantages and disadvantages of Nature’s electronic text compared to an electronic version of a traditional biology textbook.
6. What will be the implications for individuals, universities and society if it turns out that online courses with 100,000 students are effective?
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Resources• Review of Nature’s modular biology text: http://
cis471.blogspot.com/2011/11/post-gutenberg-e-text-for-biology-101.html• Merlot: http://www.merlot.org• Connexions: http://cnx.org/• OpenStax: http://openstaxcollege.org/• Interview of Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk: http://
spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/education/open-source-comes-to-textbooks• The Kahn Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/• Sal Khan on preparing a lesson: http://bigthink.com/ideas/38596• Techburst videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA9F9FCE212B121CF• Techburst home: http://c21u.gatech.edu/techburst• Drake University students collaborate on software reviews:
http://drakejournalism.com/socialclass/2012/02/09/20-twitter-tools-reviewed/• A modular digital literacy course: http://
cis275topics.blogspot.com/2011/04/modular-it-literacy-course-for-internet.html• Digital literacy – evolution, curriculum and a modular e-text: http://
som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presenatations/modularbiotext.pptx• The legacy of Aldus Manutius and his press: http://net.lib.byu.edu/aldine/• Stanford and other massive online classes: http://cis471.blogspot.com/search/label/mooc• Udacity: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/• MIT plans: http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N60/mitx.html• Review and assessment of the first Stanford classes:
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/2011/11/what-can-we-learn-from-stanford-university%E2%80%99s-free-online-computer-science-courses/
• The periodic table of videos:• https://plus.google.com/114528586908817727732/posts/bk99RpvDyv5• Lynda.com: lynda.com• Vi Hart: http://vihart.com/• Xkcd: http://xkcd.com/• Maku Naru: http://sci-ence.org/• Jeff Jarvis: Gutenberg the Geek:
http://www.amazon.com/Gutenberg-Geek-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B007EI62I0