Richard Baraniuk Rice University Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge

motivation – 1999 difficult to connect across concepts, courses, grades, curricula –ex: mathematics <> engineering <> technology <> policy –K <> 12 <> college <> graduate school <> lifelong learning –curricular stove-piping –disintegration of ideas difficult to build communities, collaborations among experts, faculty, students –many potential authors shut out –inefficient: no economies of scale –glacial time scales of development and updating high cost and limited access of high-quality textbooks and learning materials

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vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date inexpensive

>>> book shelf closed $ slow page [XML modules] interconnected global repository open source [Creative Commons license] free fast 1. liberate course materials

Connexions repository

textbook / course

personalized courses

reuse materials

author retains copyright but opens access via open license

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

knowledge ecosystem 日本語 english Українська hausa français español لعربية தமிழ

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anyone can become an author…

create stanford illinois michigan wisconsin berkeley ohio state ga tech utep rice cambridge norway italy [NSF P4I support]

create Catherine Schmidt-Jones 600,000+ page views per month many by US teachers and faculty but also Mongolia…

create Sunil Kumar Singh

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Vietnam opencourseware MOET

“For our teachers, one size never fits all” Jane Goodall International Spokesperson for TWB mix Teachers Without Borders

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Foothill-De Anza Community College

growth Usage August k+ users 20 million hits 2.5m page views from 198 countries 250+ textbooks/courses/collections Lego modules (August 2007) 2500 in Science, Technology, Mathematics 1500 in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Business from authors worldwide in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese …

create rip mix burn anyone can print their own textbook

print customized textbooks modular authored by community continuously updated personalized on assembly published on demand low cost ex: 300 page hardbound textbook for $25, not $125 (under $15 for 1000+) sustainability revenue disintermediation “Craig’s List-ization”

rice university press Rice University Press reinvented as all digital press within Connexions (2007) RUP collaborations/joint publications –Stanford University Press –Smithsonian Press –Long Tail Press –University of Michigan Press –Chicago University Press –Columbia University Press –Texas Medical Center –National Academies –Carnegie Foundation –Hewlett Foundation

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

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current initiatives open-source tools authoring, course-building, quality control lenses, printing, … platform layer over distributed repositories outreach Latin America, China (OOPS), Japan (TI), Vietnam (VEF) North Korea (PUST) content projects K-12 science and math textbooks “top 10” community college courses open textbooks for colleges worldwide corporate knowledge management and training Rice University Press and university press consortium

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cnx.org Richard Baraniuk Joel Thierstein

open access movement democratization – knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use draws inspiration from open-source software Linux, Apache, Mozilla, Firefox enabled by recent developments in info tech