1. Richard Baraniuk Rice University Open Educational Resources Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge

2. crises Karen dropped out of community college because her textbook costs > tuition bill

3. crises Eric has to purchase teaching materials out-of-pocket for his class due to slashed school budgets

4. crises Carla has to share her math textbook with her classmate because there aren’t enough to go around

5. crises Kelly wonders whether Pluto will be reinstated as a planet by the time it’s removed from her school’s science textbooks

6. crises Rashid is examining some of the 109,263 errors recently found in textbooks under review by the Texas State Board of Education

7. crises Patrick is struggling to understand Newton’s laws of motion from the text, formulas, and static pictures in his textbook

8. crises Juan’s parents can’t help him with his homework because they don’t read English

9. crises John is astonished to learn that the book he published three years ago is already out of print

10. Bonvin, Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell, 1876

11. vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date inexpensive

12. create rip mix burn

13. vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date inexpensive

14. open education create rip mix burn

15. >>> book shelf closed $ slow page interconnected global repository open source free fast 1. liberate textbooks

16. author retains their copyright but opens access via open license

17. 2. invite participation 日本語 english Українська hausa français español لعربية inclusive communities grassroots networks organizations தமிழ

18. Connexions repository cnx.org

19. textbook / course

20. personalized courses

21. reuse materials

22. textbook pipeline authoring editing quality control publishing distribution

23. open education ecosystem authoring editing quality control publishing distribution feedback peers users learning

24. open access movement

25. create rip mix burn anyone can become an author…

26. create stanford illinois michigan wisconsin berkeley ohio state ga tech utep rice cambridge norway italy

27. unintended consequences create rip mix burn

28. create Catherine Schmidt-Jones

29. create Catherine Schmidt-Jones 9 million page views to date many by US teachers and faculty but also Mongolia…

30. create Sunil Kumar Singh

31. create rip mix burn anyone can translate, customize, …

32. rip Univ. Texas-El Paso

33. rip

34. create rip mix burn assemble a customized text, …

36. complete K-12 curriculum initially science and math for 9 grades (April 2009+)

37. create rip mix burn

39. anyone can print their own textbook

40. print customized textbooks modular authored by community continuously updated personalized on assembly published on demand

41. print customized textbooks modular authored by community continuously updated personalized on assembly published on demand low cost ex: 600-page textbook for $31, not $131 sustainability revenue

42. Connexions’ growth Usage per month: 1 million unique users 45 million hits from 200 countries 450+ open textbooks 8000+ Lego modules from faculty, teachers, professionals, students, parents worldwide in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese … [January 2009]

43. open education opportunities open access free on-line low-cost in print never out-of-print high-quality continuously updated translated create rip mix burn

44. the road create rip mix burn

45. technology create rip mix burn

46. Web 1.0OER 1.0 broadcast access Web 2.0OER 2.0 remix community Web 3.0OER 3.0 feedback intelligent

47. Web 1.0OER 1.0 broadcast access Web 2.0OER 2.0 remix community Web 3.0OER 3.0 feedback intelligent

48. Web 1.0OER 1.0 broadcast access Web 2.0OER 2.0 remix community Web 3.0OER 3.0 feedback intelligent

49. semantic / active content Mathematics Markup Language (MathML)

50. semantic / active content

51. Chemistry Markup Language (CML)

52. semantic / active content Music XML Sledgehammer

53. $ create rip mix burn

54. Q: are OERs sustainable? Q: is the status quo sustainable? price of textbooks has risen 2x faster than inflation for over a decade publishers pricing themselves out of the market

55. Q: are OERs sustainable? Q: is the status quo sustainable? price of textbooks has risen 2x faster than inflation for over a decade publishers pricing themselves out of the market

56. Q: are OERs sustainable? Q: is the status quo sustainable? price of textbooks has risen 2x faster than inflation for well over a decade publishers are pricing themselves out of the market

57. $31 (600 pages)

58. software textbooks music

59. long tail publishing long tail $ Harry Potter Hypergeometric partial differential equations

60. long tail publishing long tail $

61. radiohead: in rainbows new business models

63. chris anderson

64. OER (can be) compatible with for-profit publishing CreativeCommons-By license allows commercial use enables commercial entities to add value to OERs new opportunities for global community engagement via translation, customization, …

65. OER (can be) compatible with for-profit publishing CreativeCommons-By license allows commercial use enables commercial entities to add value to OERs new opportunities for global community engagement via translation, customization, …

66. adding value publisher as a redhat business model: add value to open materials redhat: $600M/year revenue in 2008 Linux market: $36B in 2008

67. adding value business model: print on demand OnDemandBooks Espresso Book Machine 1 cent/page

68. adding value business model: make the textbooks free earn $ from supplementals

69. quality create rip mix burn

70. quality control inclusive, open-contribution policy

71. quality control inclusive, open-contribution policy

72. quality control inclusive, open-contribution policy PLAGIARIZED!

73. quality control inclusive, open-contribution policy

74. quality control must be scalable peer review exclusive community inclusive

75. lenses social software for quality control inspiration: cnx.org/lenses/ johnDoe univ.edu/cnx IEEE.org/cnx

78. cnx.org/lenses coming soon:

79. for-profit lens

81. open issues create rip mix burn

82. open issues interplay between open education and open access scholarly articles impact on tenure/promotion integration with intelligent e-learning systems (cognitive tutors) roadblocks: fragmentation of IP, technology

83. you! create rip mix burn

84. get involved! adopt an open textbook mix your own customized textbook contribute your knowledge to the commons educate your colleagues re open access

85. capetowndeclaration.org

86. create rip mix burn cnx.org Richard Baraniuk richb@cnx.org Joel Thierstein jt2@rice.edu

87. acknowledgements Thanks to… The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Rice University for their strong support