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Richard Baraniuk Sidney Burrus Rice University

Connexions Open Source Education. Richard Baraniuk Sidney Burrus Rice University. educational publishing. inefficient development. concept silos. poor access to high-quality materials ($). Connexions ’ enablers. technology web, internet, databases, … intellectual property

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Richard Baraniuk Sidney Burrus Rice University

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  1. Connexions Open Source Education Richard Baraniuk Sidney Burrus Rice University

  2. educational publishing inefficient development concept silos poor access to high-quality materials ($)

  3. Connexions’ enablers technology web, internet, databases, … intellectual property open-source licenses for content make content easy and safe to share

  4. Connexions (cnx.org) • non-profit open education platform • founded at Rice Univ. in 1999 • 1100 open textbooks/collections • 19000 Lego modules • from contributors worldwide • in 40+ languages usage per month:>2 million unique usersfrom 190 countries

  5. free online: 5 million uses to date iPad/iPhone/Androidvia ePub $26 in print(627 pages)

  6. some Connexions partners College Access Project (CAP) developing suite of open textbooksfirst 5 books in production (Words and Numbers)funding from HF, GF, 20MM, MF in placemarketing shifting into high gear Siyavula / Shuttleworth Foundation complete K-12 curriculum for South Africa Government of Vietnam developing new curriculum at 40 universities IEEE quality review of open materials

  7. outreach

  8. inreach outreach

  9. unexpected consequences Catherine Schmidt-Jones private music teacher, USA music theory textbooks 20 million uses to date Sunil Kumar Singh engineer and parent, India physics textbook 6 million uses to date

  10. peer review lenses • social software for quality control cnx.org/lenses/johnDoe IEEE.org/cnx univPress.org/cnx

  11. summary Connexions to date has focused more on educational works than scholarly works many similarities but some important differences proposed project will have both scholarly and educational outcomes platform re-build in progress collaboration with Google planned completion date summer 2012 opportunity to build in more social tools

  12. Richard Baraniuk richb@cnx.org

  13. 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

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