1. Create Globally, Educate Locally

2. Open Textbooks, Learning Objects, and Learning Solutions Going Mobile

3. Learning environment Change = Opportunity

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

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

6. Lifelong learner

7. Type of learner New markets –Global –Access –Customized

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

9. Type of learning Just in time learning

10. Ideas Information Concepts Module Courses Textbooks Authors Instructors Learners Knowledge Repository

11. Online version Download and print Buy hard copy Online View

12. 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 190 + countries

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

14. Modularization

15. Ideas Information Concepts Module Courses Textbooks Authors Instructors Learners Knowledge Repository

16. Openness

17. Create

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

19. Lenses

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

21. Permanent Versioning

22. Frictionless Remixing

23. The Technology XML OAI-PMH

24. The Most Open License CC-BY

25. Customization

26. LIGHTWEIGHT BRANDING

27. Branding – Full Customization

28. ZONING Children

29. Enterprise Rhaptos

30. Distribution

31. Online version Download and print Buy hard copy Online View

32. Multiple formats XML

33. Business Model

34. Content Creation

35. Content Maintenance/Update

36. Delivery Platform Maintenance

38. Enterprise Rhaptos

39. Delivery Platform Upgrade

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

42. Access to Education Tuition cost Textbook cost

43. Collaborative Statistics Barbara Illowsky & Susan Dean Success

44. 44 The customization

45. 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

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

47. K-12

48. Improving Quality

49. Step-Change in Education Quality

50. 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

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

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

54. Lowering Student Cost Increase in the accessibility to higher education

55. Connexions Learning Materials A Powerful Solution

56. Connexions www.cnx.org Joel Thierstein Joel.Thierstein@cnx.org Supported by the Hewlett Foundation Maxfield Foundation