1. Richard Baraniuk Rice University Houston, Texas, USA Open Education A Modern Approach to Teaching and Learning

3. vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date efficient effective

4. create share use freely re-use openly

5. create share use freely re-use openly vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date efficient effective

6. create share use freely re-use openly vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date efficient effective

7. createshare usere-use freelyopenly why? today’s textbooks/courses lock up educational ideas –closed formats –closed copyrights

8. create share use freely re-use openly vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date efficient effective open education

9. today’s textbook pipeline authoring editing quality control publishing distribution

10. open education ecosystem authoring editing quality control publishing distribution feedback peers users learning

11. OE enablers

12. enabler 1: technology Web/XML common framework for sharing Internet virtually free distribution virtually infinite, permanent storage

13. ecosystem – primordial state

14. textbook / course

15. enabler 2: new IP intellectual property and copyright make content safe to share common legal vocabulary inspiration:open-source software (Linux)

16. create re-use openly use freely OER share

17. OE examples

19. Connexions (cnx.org) Usage per month: 1 million unique users 45 million hits from 190 countries founded 9½ years ago non-profit open education platform 500 open textbooks/courses 10,000 Lego modules from contributors worldwide in many languages free on-line low-cost in print

20. Community College Open Textbook Project 80+ 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 some Connexions partners

21. translation

23. shutouts Catherine Schmidt-Jones private music teacher, USA music theory textbooks 12 million uses to date Sunil Kumar Singh engineer and parent, India physics textbook 2 million uses to date

24. open education opportunities open access free on-line low-cost in print never out-of-print high-quality continuously updated translated democratic

25. OE the road ahead

26. interactivity see do

27. open education open science

28. open education capetowndeclaration.org open science

29. Q: is OE financially sustainable? sustainability

30. 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

31. software textbooks music

32. 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

33. recommendations

34. OER mandate –public access to publicly funded education –stop buying and start developing –open up current and future government-sponsored educational materials adopt truly open intellectual property –not all open licenses are as “open” –CC-By and Public Domain licenses are open to both public and private industry learn from others’ successes and failures –Netherlands, Vietnam, Brazil, USA + several States

35. Richard Baraniuk richb@cnx.org Joel Thierstein jt2@rice.edu