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Richard Baraniuk Rice University Connexions Update
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today’s education pipeline authoring editing peer review publishing distribution lecturing testing graduating accrediting
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open education ecosystem feedback lecturing testing graduating accrediting distribution publishing peer review editing authoring
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Connexions (cnx.org) usage per month: 2.2 million unique users 110 million hits from 190 countries non-profit open education platform founded 11 years ago 1000 open textbooks/courses 17000 Lego modules from contributors worldwide in many languages free on-line low-cost in print ePub for iPad iTunes U
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55 faculty adoptions across USA in 2010 6 customized versions in CNX Approved by California Free Digital Textbook Initiative (met 19/19 standards) free online: 2 million uses to date iPad/iPhone/Android via ePub $26.31 in print (627 pages)
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Community College Open Textbook Project 100+ CC’s in USA and Canada developing a suite of free open textbooks Government of Vietnam developing new curriculum at 40 universities Siyavula / Shuttleworth Foundation complete K-12 curriculum for South Africa IEEE quality review of open materials some Connexions partners
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CNX recent progress
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Connexions
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textbook 2.0
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personalized learning
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Connexions QuAD question & answer database new technology new content more community college textbooks ++ new communities interactive Lablets learning machine Focus peer review system
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summer of CNX 2010
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interactive lablets see do
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interactive lablets see do
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semantic / active content Mathematics Markup Language (MathML)
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QuAD: question/answer database
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CNXEditor
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on-going team building/fund raising to –complete machine learning layer –expand further into K-12 (El Paso ISD, Houston Harmony, KIPP, Yes Prep …) –update CNX architecture discussions with Google
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