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Richard Baraniuk Connexions Rice University

OER for Scale. Richard Baraniuk Connexions Rice University. OER for Scale. Richard Baraniuk Connexions Rice University. case study: Connexions. 1200 open textbooks/collections 20000 educational Lego blocks 40 languages millions of users per month from 190 countries.

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Richard Baraniuk Connexions Rice University

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  1. OER for Scale Richard BaraniukConnexions Rice University

  2. OER for Scale Richard BaraniukConnexions Rice University

  3. case study: Connexions • 1200 open textbooks/collections • 20000 educational Lego blocks • 40 languages • millions of users per monthfrom 190 countries

  4. OERhow to scale up?

  5. OER 1.0informal instructor sharing focus on resources fragmented by tech and IP lack of sustainable business models

  6. OER 1.0informal instructor sharing focus on resources fragmented by tech and IP lack of sustainable business models OER 2.0 turn-key course solutions focus on quality, learning unified, scalable platforms new business models

  7. OERscale up #1turn-key solutions

  8. “crossing the chasm”

  9. Free college textbooks for the 20+ highest impact college courses GOAL: turn-key solution suite of services comprising textbook, mobile apps, ancillaries, homework system, analytics, … high quality written by professionals peer review and classroom testing editorial board of Nobelists and other luminaries

  10. OERscale up #2new business models

  11. OER 1.0 Discipline Communities Technology Service Provider Publisher Subscription Services Academic Community Legislative/ Community OER Producers Students

  12. emerging OER 2.0 ecosystem Discipline Communities Academic Community Publisher Subscription Services Learning Outcome Development Standards Technology Service Provider OER Marketplace Legislative/ Community OER Producer Students

  13. partners

  14. OERscale up #3focus on learning

  15. GOAL: personalize the learning experience using analytics to track and maximize learning outcomes

  16. personalized learning challenge: scaling to many different kinds of learners subjects • exploit global community of authors/instructors/learners • replace top-down rules based systems with bottom-up machine learning algorithms

  17. Connexions Connexions

  18. Connexions+ Quadbaseopen sourceassessments database supporting infrastructure for assessment, interactivity, peer review Connexions interactivesimsLablets Focuspeer review system Videotutorials

  19. personalized learning system Quadbaseopen sourceassessments database machine learning algs Connexions interactivesimsLablets Focuspeer review system Videotutorials

  20. personalized learning system baked in cognitive science Elizabeth Marsh Andrew Butler Henry Roediger beta testing at Rice, GaTech, UTEP, STEMscopes all software and content open source (pls.ricedsp.org)

  21. personalized learning system

  22. OERscale up #4scalable platforms

  23. scalable platforms engineering tension between ease of (re)use and quality of output (web, pdf, ePub, apps, print) response: complete re-design of Connexions update CNXML to HTML5 (mobile devices) advanced editing, internationalization move to the cloud (Google App Engine) planned launch: early 2013

  24. OER for scale OER 2.0 turn-key course solutions focus on quality, learning unified, scalable platforms new business models cnx.org openstaxcollege.org quadbase.org pls.ricedsp.org

  25. Richard Baraniuk David Harris richb@cnx.org david.harris@cnx.org

  26. Further Reading Open education • R. G. Baraniuk and C. S. Burrus, “Global Warming toward Open Educational Resources, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 51, No. 9, September 2008. • U. P. Dholakia and R. G. Baraniuk, “The Roles of Social Networks and Communities in Open Education Programs,” in Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies, S. Hatzipanagos and S. Warburton, eds., IGI Global Publishing, 2008. • R. G. Baraniuk, “Challenges and Opportunities for the Open Education Movement: A Connexions Case Study,” in Opening Up Education — The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, T. Iiyoshi, M. S. Vijay Kumar, eds., MIT Press, 2008. Open licenses • R. G. Baraniuk, “How Open are Open Educational Resources?”Domus (Italy), 923(03/09), March 2009. Future of peer review / open science • C. Kelty, C. S. Burrus, R. G. Baraniuk, “Peer Review Anew,”Proceedings of the IEEE, June 2008. • cnx.org/lenses • IEEEcnx.org • openstaxcollege.org

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