Create Globally, Educate Locally
Open Textbooks, Learning Objects, and Learning Solutions Going Mobile
Learning environment • Change = Opportunity
Location of learner • • • In class At home On the bus At work. .
Time of learning • • Time of day Length of time in one sitting Time between sittings Time of life
Lifelong learner
Type of learner • New markets – Global – Access – Customized
Type of learning • Blended learning – Based on learner – Based on subject matter
Type of learning • Just in time learning
Authors Ideas Information Concepts Module Instructors Knowledge Repository Learners Courses Textbooks
Online View Online version Download and print Buy hard copy
Connexions Growth Over 16, 000 modules woven into nearly 1000 collections 7700 in Science, Technology, Mathematics 4600 in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Business 35, 000+ versions of modules from over 1000 authors worldwide in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese … Monthly Usage Approximations: 1. 5 million + visits 70 million + hits 3. 5 million + page views from 190 + countries
Existing Content Nearly 1000 different collections (textbooks, courses, reports, manuals) in Connexions + Chemistry, Electronics, Ethics, Physics, Lab. VIEW, Art History, Galileo, World History. . .
Modularization
Authors Ideas Information Concepts Module Instructors Knowledge Repository Learners Courses Textbooks
Openness
Create
Capturing the power of Web 2. 0 while maintaining quality • Social networking v. quality
Lenses
Lenses Social Software For Peer Review Scalable And Distributed Rice University Florida NCPEA
Permanent Versioning
Frictionless Remixing
The Technology XML OAI-PMH
The Most Open License CC-BY
Customization
LIGHTWEIGHT BRANDING
Branding – Full Customization
ZONING Children
Enterprise Rhaptos
Distribution
Online View Online version Download and print Buy hard copy
XML Multiple formats
Business Model
Content Creation
Content Maintenance/Update
Delivery Platform Maintenance
Enterprise Rhaptos
Delivery Platform Upgrade
Turning Those Changes in Latitude. . . Into Changes in Attitude
Access to Education Textbook cost Tuition cost
Success Collaborative Statistics Barbara Illowsky & Susan Dean
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Collaborative Statistics Textbook Adopters Since Fall 2008 – Arkansas – South Carolina – California § Arkansas Tech University – New York – – Michigan § Eastern Michigan University Massachusetts – Washington § Converse College § § § § CSU Dominguez Hills De Anza College Sacramento City College San Diego Mesa College Cabrillo College Lake Tahoe Community College San Francisco State University – Maryland – Canada – Colorado – Georgia – Ohio – Virginia § Frederick Community College § St. Mary's Collegiate Institute § University of Colorado § Emory University § University of Toledo § Virginia Tech University – § Borough of Manhattan Community College § Syracuse University § SUNY - Purchase College § Berkshire Community College § South Puget Sound Community College Vermont § Green Mountain College
Collaborative Statistics • Estimated cost savings to students ~ $200, 000 in the first year • Roughly 50% of students bought a hard copy of textbook
K-12
Improving Quality
Step-Change in Education Quality
• Content freely available and adaptable Capture the intellectual capital of your state • Content is open and commercializable Engage commercial content producers to add value • Base content is free Educational spending is on learning not textbooks Step change in education
Improving Quality Everybody gets access to all content/research immediately Capture intellectual capital
Easily Customizable Content Increased academic freedom More accurate up-to-date material More culturally relevant material
Lowering Student Cost Increase in the accessibility to higher education
Connexions Learning Materials A Powerful Solution
Connexions www. cnx. org Joel Thierstein Joel. Thierstein@cnx. org Supported by the Hewlett Foundation Maxfield Foundation
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