Create Globally, Educate Locally

Open Textbooks, Learning Objects, and Learning Solutions Going Mobile

Learning environment Change = Opportunity

Location of learner In class At home On the bus At work....

Time of learning Time of day Length of time in one sitting Time between sittings Time of life

Lifelong learner

Type of learner New markets –Global –Access –Customized

Type of learning Blended learning –Based on learner –Based on subject matter

Type of learning Just in time learning

Ideas Information Concepts Module Courses Textbooks Authors Instructors Learners Knowledge Repository

Online version Download and print Buy hard copy Online View

Connexions Growth Over 16,000 modules woven into nearly 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 Vietnamese … Monthly Usage Approximations: 1.5 million + visits 70 million + hits 3.5 million + page views from countries

Nearly 1000 different collections (textbooks, courses, reports, manuals) in Connexions + Chemistry, Electronics, Ethics, Physics, LabVIEW, Art History, Galileo, World History... Existing Content

Modularization

Ideas Information Concepts Module Courses Textbooks Authors Instructors Learners Knowledge Repository

Openness

Create

Capturing the power of Web 2.0 while maintaining quality Social networking v. quality

Lenses

Social Software For Peer Review Scalable And Distributed Rice University Florida NCPEA

Permanent Versioning

Frictionless Remixing

The Technology XML OAI-PMH

The Most Open License CC-BY

Customization

LIGHTWEIGHT BRANDING

Branding – Full Customization

ZONING Children

Enterprise Rhaptos

Distribution

Online version Download and print Buy hard copy Online View

Multiple formats XML

Business Model

Content Creation

Content Maintenance/Update

Delivery Platform Maintenance

Enterprise Rhaptos

Delivery Platform Upgrade

Turning Those Changes in Latitude... Into Changes in Attitude

Access to Education Tuition cost Textbook cost

Collaborative Statistics Barbara Illowsky & Susan Dean Success

44 The customization

Collaborative Statistics Textbook Adopters Since Fall 2008 –Arkansas Arkansas Tech University –South Carolina Converse College –California CSU Dominguez Hills De Anza College Sacramento City College San Diego Mesa College Cabrillo College Lake Tahoe Community College San Francisco State University –Maryland Frederick Community College –Canada St. Mary's Collegiate Institute –Colorado University of Colorado –Georgia Emory University –Ohio University of Toledo –Virginia Virginia Tech University –New York Borough of Manhattan Community College Syracuse University SUNY - Purchase College –Michigan Eastern Michigan University –Massachusetts Berkshire Community College –Washington South Puget Sound Community College –Vermont Green Mountain College

Collaborative Statistics Estimated cost savings to students ~ $200,000 in the first year Roughly 50% of students bought a hard copy of textbook

K-12

Improving Quality

Step-Change in Education Quality

Content freely available and adaptable Capture the intellectual capital of your state Content is open and commercializable Engage commercial content producers to add value Base content is free Educational spending is on learning not textbooks Step change in education

Improving Quality Everybody gets access to all content/research immediately Capture intellectual capital

Easily Customizable Content Increased academic freedom More accurate up-to-date material More culturally relevant material

Lowering Student Cost Increase in the accessibility to higher education

Connexions Learning Materials A Powerful Solution

Connexions Joel Thierstein Supported by the Hewlett Foundation Maxfield Foundation