1. IEEE-SPS / Connexions Joint Project on Open Access Education Richard Baraniuk Sidney Burrus Joel Thierstein Ray Wagner Connexions Rice University cnx.org

2. executive summary IEEE-SPS/Connexions partnership on high-quality, certified, open-access educational content on signal processing –IEEE content development project for K-12 to lifelong learning for practicing engineers –IEEE certification process for open-access educational modules and courses new opportunity for IEEE-SPS outreach and visibility IEEE-SPS members gain access to and ability to contribute to a high-quality SP educational repository

3. open access movement guiding principle: knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use draws inspiration from open-source software Linux, Apache, Mozilla, Firefox enabled by recent developments in info tech

4. author retains copyright but opens access via open license

5. 200+ million licensed works

6. Connexions (cnx.org) non-profit open education publishing project goal: make high-quality educational content available to anyone, anywhere, anytime for free on the web and at very low cost in print open-licensed repository of Lego-block modules that comprise courses/collections open-source tools enable authors, instructors, and learners to create, rip, mix, burn modules and courses Creative Commons open-content licenses, XML tools

7. Connexions (cnx.org) founded in 1999 by Richard Baraniuk, Sidney Burrus, Don Johnson (Rice faculty) initial content base created in signal processing –now also engineering, science, mathematics, statistics, computing, history, anthropology, business, K-12 science and music, … –translations in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, … –270+ courses, 4700+ modules global reach: 600k unique users monthly 20 million hits from 200 countries 50% of hits outside USA one of the most-used open education web sites

8. dsp in Connexions stanford illinois michigan wisconsin berkeley ohio state ga tech utep rice cambridge norway italy [NSF P4I support]

9. spanish translation Univ. Texas-El Paso

12. selected partners

13. lenses certification by peer review filtering

14. lenses certification by peer review filtering ieee.org/sp/cnx cnx.org/ieee-sp cnx.org/lenses/ni stanford.edu/cnx

18. benefits to IEEE-SPS free and convenient educational materials development and delivery platform for the SP community at large new opportunity for IEEE-SPS visibility and brand recognition outreach opportunity beyond the traditional borders of signal processing (extending to practitioners, educators, and students at all levels from K-12 through PhD) new outlet for authors’ unpublished educational materials new community building tool SPS taking lead in potentially IEEE-wide initiative

19. proposed project 1. IEEE-SPS open-access content development 2. IEEE-SPS review/certification (lens)

20. proposed project (1) IEEE-SPS open-access content development from individual modules to complete courses/textbooks existing SPS Connexions content from don johnson, doug jones, rob nowak, nick kingsbury, justin romberg, j-c pesquet, lee potter, phil schniter, clay scott, ivan selesnick, sidney burrus, richard baraniuk, ed doering, davide rocchesso, anders gjendemsjø, minh do, … informal commitments to develop content from martin vetterli and jelena kovacevic (“wavelets and subband coding” book), charlie bouman, jan allebach, ed delp, mark smith, stephen mcLaughlin (CUP), al hero (CUP), julius smith, jean yves tourneret, patrick flandrin, mari ostendorf, alex acero, …

21. proposed project (2) IEEE-SPS review/certification (lens) –IEEE-SPS to review and certify Connexions’ open-access SP materials –possible solution:  small oversight/editorial board  responsible for identifying reviewers and making editorial decisions

22. ? cnx.org

24. proposed project (1) IEEE-SPS open-access content development from individual modules to complete courses/textbooks initial focus on 3-4 content areas (TBD) – e.g. theory and methods, biometrics, imaging, image processing, video, speech each area to have a “champion” volunteer translation into Spanish and Chinese existing SP Connexions content from don johnson, doug jones, rob nowak, nick kingsbury, justin romberg, j-c pesquet, lee potter, phil schniter, clay scott, ivan selesnick, sidney burrus, richard baraniuk, ed doering, davide rocchesso, anders gjendemsjø, minh do… informal commitments to develop content from martin vetterli and jelena kovacevic (wavelets and subband coding book), charlie bouman, jan allebach, ed delp, mark smith, stephen mcLaughlin (CUP), al hero (CUP), julius smith, jean yves tourneret, patrick flandrin, mari ostendorf, alex acero, …

25. action plan develop IEEE-SPS/CNX agreement re asset allocation (equipment, staffing, etc.) –(potentially) hire IEEE-SPS project manager –ray wagner to act as CNX liaison populate small oversight/editorial board –hammer out criteria and process for lens certification content development –identify champions and invite authors in initial focus areas –develop best practices documentation –LaTeX/Word to XML conversion process/tools visibility –booth and free tutorials at ICASSP 2008 and ICIP 2009 –calls for participation and progress reports in Signal Processing Magazine, Spectrum anticipated rollout: january 2008 for initial contributions