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Agenda Open Source Why write open textbooks? Examples Licensing Considerations Repositories and Peer Reviews Authoring Platforms Marketing & Sales Labeled for reuse by Crystal

Open Source Cathedral and Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Sourc Bazaar –Continuous edits by community Produces better code Satisfies a developer’s itch Know what to rewrite and reuse A million eyeballs helps find bugs faster

Open Source Fuels Innovation Red Hat Linux Google servers –$2000 x 10 million servers Facebook –Built from the ground up on open source 5 Leonid Mamchenkov Flickr CC-BY

An open textbook is… Modifiable by instructor –Digital, Modular –Adaptable Low cost to students –Free for those with computers and internet access Labeled for reuse by MrKCoolsPhotostream

An open textbook has been… Copyright All Rights Reserved to Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved From the Creative Commons store

Chuck Severance Chuck Severance Dr. Chuck Software developer, professor, open textbook author, inventor O’Reilly © to Open License TextbooksRevised Open Textbook

Barbara Illowsky, PhD De Anza College Instructor, Author, Speaker Publisher: WileyOpen: Connexions & QOOP Downloadable version: $77.50 Downloadable & online versions: FREE

Why write open textbooks? Improve print sales Increase your impact –translations Improve learning outcomes Collaborate … –engineers, artists, publishers

Open License History Public Domain Gnu Free Documentation License(GFDL) –Free Software Foundation Creative Commons Photo: Artegalia ccbyncnd Countess Ada Lovelace

Public Domain Copyright has expired –Author’s life plus 70 years –Owner gives it away Project Gutenberg & Partners –100,000 ebooks for download Newton’s Principia Photo: Andrew Dunne cc-by

Creative Commons Works with existing copyright law Authors specify re-uses Promotes sharing Internationally recognized

“Saving the world from failed sharing”

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Authoring Platforms Connexions Wikibooks CK-12 Flexbooks Teachers without bordersTeachers Lemill (languages) Bloomsbury academic O’Reilly Open Books Project

Connexions Repository Rice University Import Microsoft Word files Open License Modules-based –Versioning Peer Reviews

Ideas Information Concepts Module Courses Textbooks Authors Instructors Learners Knowledge Repository

The Most Open and Remixable License CC-BY

5/12/2010 Connexions Open Textbooks Printed by QOOP

Connexions Growth Nearly 17,000 modules woven into over 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 million + visits 50 million + hits 2.5 million + page views from countries

Wikibooks Open-content textbooks Create collection of wiki pages –Export to PDF Open licensing –Share-alike Versioning Featured Books

Wikibook Philosophy WRITER Enables you, the WRITER, to teach a subject that you know. READERS Enables READERS to learn the subject, paying exorbitant prices of textbooks. WIKIBOOKIANsInspires WIKIBOOKIANs to contribute to your book, making it a better resource.

A Wikibook needs: A good plan Solid infrastructure Sharp Focus Broad Scope Start a New Book Here

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CK-12 Flex Books khosla foundation Web-based Flex tool Open License Library of Chapters Quality ensured by CK-12's Community of Educational Practitioners

CK-12 Flex Register for online account Select Curriculum –Engineering –Mathematics –Science –Technology Edit, Assemble Chapters, Customize, Print

CK-12 Books 12 STEM books presently California Learning Network Featured

Marketing Open Textbooks Create a platform before writing –Blogging –Twitter #OPEN TEXTBOOK Encourage community participation –Online and in-person –Allow easy re-use and re-mix –Ancillaries, Test banks, etc.

Drive Textbook Adoptions Peer-Reviews: –College Open TextbooksCollege Open Textbooks –The Assayer –Can you HELP? Hang with Coders and Faculty –Textbook Author’s Association –College Events

More Information Visit College Open Textbooks – Visit the OER College Consortium website – Visit the OER Center for California – May 21, 2010 Creative Commons CC BY