1. Share and Share Alike Finding and Authoring Open ICT Textbooks Una Daly, College Open Textbooks Mid-Pacific ICT Conference January 6, 2011

2. College Open Textbook Collaborative 200+ colleges

3. Tell us a little about yourself... Your Name Your College What you want to learn about open textbooks

4. Broken Textbook Business Model Students spend $900/year on average. Prices 3 x inflation rate. Academic authors often paid poorly. New editions published frequently eliminate used textbook market. Source: student PIRGs Affordable Textbooks 2010, GAO 4

5. Why Open Collaboration? Open Source Model Digital Info Age Educational Equity

6. Open Source Benefits Community Development Inspires developers to reuse Produces better code Fuels Innovation Leonid Mamchenkov Flickr CC-BY AJC1 Flickr CC-BY Wikimedia.org/commons

7. Digital Information Age

8. Educational Equity 26% of tuition @ public 4-years 72% of tuition @ Community Colleges

9. 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

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

11. Finding Open Textbooks By Subject Peer Reviews Accessibility Reviews Faculty Resources Best Practices Community

12. Open License vs. Copyright What’s the Same?What’s Different?

13. Copyright Case Studies Case 1: True or False: Any presentation slides that I would use in the class room I could also publish as OER simply by posting online. Case 2: True or False: You can NOT use a scanned photo from a textbook that says “© 1980 All right reserved” on the cover page in OER. Case 3: True or False: You can use a free, online article without copyright (©) notification in OER. Source: michigan open wiki, http://open.umich.edu/dScribe

14. Open Licensing Options Photo: Artegalia ccbyncnd Creative Commons CC-BY Public Domain – Author’s life plus 70 years – freely given away – Government documents GNU Free Documentation License Creative Commons Licenses

15. Creative Commons Author limits copyright Promotes sharing Internationally recognized

16. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ “Saving the world from failed sharing”

17. CC Search for Open Images, Music, Videos

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

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

20. Barbara Illowsky, PhD De Anza College Instructor, Author, Speaker Publisher: WileyOpen: Connexions & QOOP Downloadable version: $77.50 Book version: $160.00 Downloadable & online versions: FREE Book version: $30.00 (softbound)

21. Authoring & Content Distribution Connexions Wikibooks iTunesU

22. Connexions Repository Rice University Rice University Import Word files or edit pages –Versioning Open License Export PDF or ePub –Print on Demand Peer Reviews and Lenses

23. 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, and Vietnamese … Monthly Usage Approximations: 1 million + visits 50 million + hits 2.5 million + page views from 200 + countries

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

25. Wikibook Philosophy WRITER Enables you, the WRITER, to teach a subject that you know. READERS Enables READERS to learn the subject, without paying exorbitant prices of textbooks. WIKIBOOKIANsInspires WIKIBOOKIANs to contribute to your book, making it a better resource.

26. iTunes U Content Distribution Not an authoring platform –Pages™ can be used to create ePub content Open and copyrighted material from educational institutions. Export to ePub and PDF Quality ensured by institution FHKE cc-by Flickr

27. iTunes U Content Distribution More than 800 universities800 universities –Oxford, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley … –Half distribute publicly Beyond Campus Materials –Museums, libraries, etc Lectures, books, mp3, videos, … Institutions post to their site

28. Accessible & Mobile ePUB is new standard –Converts to DAISY PDF is often inaccessible –Structural markups missing –Cannot be reflowed for mobile devices –Primarily a print format DAISY (Digital Accessible Info System) Reader

29. Join Us Join College Open Textbooks http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com Join the OER College Consortium http://oerconsortium.org http://oerconsortium.org Visit College Open Textbooks Resources http://collegeopentextbooks.org