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International Experiences w ith Open Educational Resources. Richard Baraniuk. nanotubes. knowledge forms a network. algebra. geometry. art history. proteomics. linguistics. knowledge forms a network networks enable new means to develop and share knowledge. global author community.
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International Experiences with Open Educational Resources Richard Baraniuk
nanotubes knowledge forms a network algebra geometry art history proteomics linguistics
knowledge forms a network networks enable new means to developand shareknowledge
global authorcommunity teachers anywhere buildcustomized texts open repository of free lessons and curriculum students everywherehave free access many output formats
unexpected consequences Catherine Schmidt-Jones private music teacher, USA music theory textbooks 25 million uses to datein official curriculum in Mongolia Sunil Kumar Singh engineer and parent, India physics textbook 8 million uses to datemost use in USA
some Connexions partners 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
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!
open college textbooks plan Spanish translations other languages coming soon! phase 1 (published) phase 2 (2013/14)
massive open online course (MOOC) online textbook computer-based assessment social space video lectures
"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
inreach outreach