Richard Baraniuk open access educational publishing

open educational resources (OER) technology web, internet, databases, … intellectual property open-source licenses for content make content easy and safe to share

digital open publishing platform founded at Rice University in 1999 open to all to use/contribute 1400 open texts/collections 23,000 educational Lego blocks 40 languages millions of users per month from 190 countries

economics gone awry Mark Perry, American Enterprise Institute, January 2013

USA student debt over $1,000,000,000,000 70% of college students forgo buying texts 78% of those students believe they will perform worse as a result 24% of students take fewer credit hours due to expense

the OER chasm OER 1.0

crossing the OER chasm OER 1.0

crossing the OER chasm OER 1.0OER 2.0

library of 25 high-quality, free college textbooks

open college textbooks high quality professionally authored professional production values peer reviewed turnkey adoptable text + ancillaries multiplatform free/open available in Connexions

open college textbooks venture philanthropy ROI in student savings

progress to date phase 1 (published) phase 2 (2013/15) 484 adoptions 70k students $7.1M saved 3.5M unique web users 500K full text downloads Tacoma CC Anna Arundel CC Dalhousie University Central Florida State Massachusetts Bay CC UMass Amherst U Oklahoma U Georgia UT Austin UC Irvine …

partners drive scaling and sustainability

open education the road ahead

disruptive ^

textbooks learning new business models

computer hardware and software textbooks learning music newspapers

broader access open textbooks massive open online courses (MOOCs)

rich data

data (massive, rich, personal) close the learning feedback loop rich data and feedback

curriculum (re)design personalized learning pathways cognitive science research big data cycles of innovation

renaissance

imagine a world… where millions of students worldwide have free and open access to a library of high-quality learning experiences where outstanding teachers have access to a global classroom where every textbook is a personalized tutor where data helps us invent new ways to teach and learn

Richard Baraniuk

further reading open education –R. G. Baraniuk, “Opening Education,” The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering, –R. G. Baraniuk and C. S. Burrus, “Global Warming toward Open Educational Resources, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 51, No. 9, September –U. P. Dholakia and R. G. Baraniuk, “The Roles of Social Networks and Communities in Open Education Programs,” in Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies, S. Hatzipanagos and S. Warburton, eds., IGI Global Publishing, –R. G. Baraniuk, “Challenges and Opportunities for the Open Education Movement: A Connexions Case Study,” in Opening Up Education — The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, T. Iiyoshi, M. S. Vijay Kumar, eds., MIT Press, open licenses –R. G. Baraniuk, “How Open are Open Educational Resources?” Domus (Italy), 923(03/09), March future of peer review / open science –C. Kelty, C. S. Burrus, R. G. Baraniuk, “Peer Review Anew,” Proceedings of the IEEE, June –cnx.org/lenses –IEEEcnx.org