1. WebAssign and Open Source Content
February 2010
John Risley, CEO WebAssign

2. Agenda What is WebAssign? The Quick WebAssign Story
WebAssign Partnering with the open source community
Higher Education Market Realities

3. What is WebAssign? A Learning Tool
Hosted, online cloud-based homework and grading service
Dynamic homework
Labs
Quizzes
Reading assignments
Tests
Distributes, collects, and scores assignments
Automatically entered into grade book
Provides students and teachers with immediate feedback on performance

4. The Quick WebAssign Story
WebAssign was developed by teachers for teachers: physics, math, chemistry, statistics
Funded initially by NC State University, along with grants and ultimately revenues generated from sales
Our engineers work regularly with the open source software community
More than 400,000 students use WebAssign
A Social Enterprise

5. Open Source Partners are Ideal
We can enhance your projects while significantly lowering the cost to students.
Quantitative courses are our specialty.
WebAssign plans on building a common, community-based question bank.
Currently 1.3 million questions available
Contributors are free to use their own content anywhere they like.

6. Overview of Costs No Fee Fee Schools Instructors
Unlimited tech support
Open source ebooks
Fee
Students using homework service
As low as $15.95 per term

7. Higher Education Market Realities
Instructors and administrators are looking to reduce costs.
Need to be mindful of the high quality commercial materials.
Faculty are conservative, most don’t want to create their own materials or radically change their courses.
Need to leverage community teaching networks to establish a base of users to drive product enhancements.