Richard Baraniuk International Experiences with Open Educational Resources

knowledge forms a network art history linguistics proteomics algebra geometry nanotubes

knowledge forms a network networks enable new means to develop and share knowledge

global author community open repository of free lessons and curriculum teachers anywhere build customized texts students everywhere have free access many output formats

unexpected consequences Catherine Schmidt-Jones private music teacher, USA music theory textbooks 25 million uses to date in official curriculum in Mongolia Sunil Kumar Singh engineer and parent, India physics textbook 8 million uses to date most use in USA

IEEE quality review of open materials (IEEEcnx.org) Siyavula high school science texts for South Africa Government of Vietnam developing new curriculum at 40 universities OpenStax College developing a library of free college textbooks some Connexions partners

Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croation, Spanish, Thai, Tsonga, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietanmese

from Signal and Systems… 5 million uses to date

…to Señales y Sistemas 4x more popular in Spanish!

plan Spanish translations other languages coming soon! open college textbooks phase 1 (published) phase 2 (2013/14)

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"MOOCs are increasingly an international phenomenon," says Andrew Ng, cofounder of Coursera, the largest of the MOOC providers 60% of Coursera's students are from outside of the United States Coursera has added a number of courses taught in Italian, German, Chinese, French and Spanish

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