1. Skills: none Concepts: evolution of media, experiments with modular teaching material, student-developed teaching material, peer tutoring and very large classes, textbook business opportunity This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Requiem for the textbook

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills

3. The Assassination of the Duke de Guise (1908) Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolff? (1966) Early movies

4. Ed Sullivan Show, 1964 Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, 1953 Early television

5. Gutenberg Bible, 1455

6. Aldus Manutius, over 50 years later

7. Repurposed textbooks

8. Repurposed courses

9. Faculty and institutional inertia

10. Unstructured modules

12. A modular course (with a unique business model)

15. Student generated material

16. Peer teaching and collaboration

17. Massive online courses

18. Many types of teaching material

19. Textbook prices vs. consumer prices

20. VC investment in education technology

21. Going out of business?

22. Summary

23. Self-study questions 1.Find a Merlot module that is relevant to a course you are currently taking. Write a brief description of the module and state whether it would be helpful to you? If so, show it to your professor. 2.Find a Kahn Academy module that is relevant to a course you are taking or took in the past. Write a brief description of the module and state whether it would be helpful to you? If so, show it to the professor. 3.Would you be willing to pay $49 for a lifetime subscription to a regularly updated textbook for any course you have taken? Which one? 4.List the advantages and disadvantages of Nature’s electronic text compared to a traditional biology textbook. 5.List the advantages and disadvantages of Nature’s electronic text compared to an electronic version of a traditional biology textbook. 6.What will be the implications for individuals, universities and society if it turns out that online courses with 100,000 students are effective?

24. Resources Review of Nature’s modular biology text: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/11/post-gutenberg-e-text-for- biology-101.htmlhttp://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/11/post-gutenberg-e-text-for- biology-101.html Merlot: http://www.merlot.orghttp://www.merlot.org Connexions: http://cnx.org/http://cnx.org/ OpenStax: http://openstaxcollege.org/http://openstaxcollege.org/ Interview of Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk: http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at- work/education/open-source-comes-to-textbookshttp://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at- work/education/open-source-comes-to-textbooks The Kahn Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/http://www.khanacademy.org/ Sal Khan on preparing a lesson: http://bigthink.com/ideas/38596http://bigthink.com/ideas/38596 Techburst videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA9F9FCE212B121CFhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA9F9FCE212B121CF Techburst home: http://c21u.gatech.edu/techbursthttp://c21u.gatech.edu/techburst Drake University students collaborate on software reviews: http://drakejournalism.com/socialclass/2012/02/09/20-twitter-tools-reviewed/ http://drakejournalism.com/socialclass/2012/02/09/20-twitter-tools-reviewed/ A modular digital literacy course: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2011/04/modular-it-literacy-course-for- internet.htmlhttp://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2011/04/modular-it-literacy-course-for- internet.html Digital literacy – evolution, curriculum and a modular e-text: http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presenatations/modularbiotext.pptx http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presenatations/modularbiotext.pptx The legacy of Aldus Manutius and his press: http://net.lib.byu.edu/aldine/http://net.lib.byu.edu/aldine/ Stanford and other massive online classes: http://cis471.blogspot.com/search/label/moochttp://cis471.blogspot.com/search/label/mooc Udacity: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/ MIT plans: http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N60/mitx.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V131/N60/mitx.html Review and assessment of the first Stanford classes: http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/2011/11/what-can-we-learn- from-stanford-university%E2%80%99s-free-online-computer-science-courses/http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/2011/11/what-can-we-learn- from-stanford-university%E2%80%99s-free-online-computer-science-courses/ The periodic table of videos: https://plus.google.com/114528586908817727732/posts/bk99RpvDyv5 Lynda.com: lynda.com Vi Hart: http://vihart.com/http://vihart.com/ Xkcd: http://xkcd.com/http://xkcd.com/ Maku Naru: http://sci-ence.org/http://sci-ence.org/ Jeff Jarvis: Gutenberg the Geek: http://www.amazon.com/Gutenberg-Geek-Kindle-Single- ebook/dp/B007EI62I0http://www.amazon.com/Gutenberg-Geek-Kindle-Single- ebook/dp/B007EI62I0