1. Richard Baraniuk Rice University The Open Education Movement: Transforming the Economics and Ecology of Education

2. damianharvey.co.uk

3. Bonvin, Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell, 1876

4. motivation – 1999 difficult to connect across concepts, courses, grades, curricula –ex: mathematics <> engineering <> technology <> policy –K <> 12 <> college <> graduate school <> lifelong learning difficult to build communities, collaborations among experts, faculty, students –most potential authors shut out –glacial time scales of development and updating high cost and limited access of high-quality textbooks and learning materials

5. vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date inexpensive create rip mix burn

6. vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date inexpensive

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

8. Connexions repository

9. textbook / course

10. personalized courses

11. reuse materials

12. author retains their copyright but opens access via open license

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

14. textbook pipeline authoring editing quality control publishing distribution

15. open education ecosystem authoring editing quality control publishing distribution feedback peers users learning

16. open access movement

17. create rip mix burn anyone can become an author…

18. create stanford illinois michigan wisconsin berkeley ohio state ga tech utep rice cambridge norway italy

19. create Catherine Schmidt-Jones 9 million page views to date many by US teachers and faculty but also Mongolia…

20. create Sunil Kumar Singh

21. create rip mix burn anyone can translate, customize, …

22. rip Univ. Texas-El Paso

23. rip

24. create rip mix burn assemble a customized course, …

26. create rip mix burn anyone can print their own textbook

27. print customized textbooks modular authored by community continuously updated personalized on assembly published on demand low cost ex: 600-page textbook for $31, not $131 sustainability revenue print partner: QOOP.com

28. long tail publishing publish on demand changes the economics of publishing disintermediation “Craig’s List-ization” long tail $ Harry Potter Connexions

29. Connexions’ growth Usage in October 2008 1 million users 45 million hits from 200 countries 380+ textbooks/courses/collections 7000+ Lego modules (October 2008) 4000 in Science, Technology, Mathematics 3000 in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Business from authors worldwide in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese …

30. the road create rip mix burn

31. increasing openness transparency

32. radiohead: in rainbows

35. adding value “there’s plenty of room at the bottom” publishers as redhat’s adding value to open materials

36. print on demand

37. university presses closed, downsized, restructured Rice University Press (closed – 1996) University of Idaho Press (closed) Northeastern University Press (closed) University of Georgia Press (downsized) University of Iowa Press (downsized) University of Washington Press (downsized) Texas Tech University Press (downsized) Stanford University Press (restructured) University of Michigan Press (restructured)

38. rice university press Rice University Press reopened and reinvented as all digital press within Connexions (2007) RUP collaborations/joint publications –Stanford University Press –Smithsonian Press –Long Tail Press –Mellon Foundation –Hewlett Foundation

39. $10 + shipping

41. CCOTP Foothill-De Anza Community College Siyavula

42. marthapedia “If you know how to take red wine out of a white cloth napkin better than I do, then that’s good to know. We’ll be editing user content and it won’t be as freewheeling as Wikipedia. You really have to monitor this.” [Wired August 2007]

43. quality create rip mix burn

44. quality control must be scalable peer review exclusive community inclusive

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

46. cnx.org/lenses coming soon:

49. for-profit lens

51. dangers fragmentation due to incompatible IP technology

52. you! create rip mix burn

53. get involved! adopt an open textbook for your course mix your own customized textbook contribute your knowledge to the commons educate your colleagues re open access

54. capetowndeclaration.org

55. create rip mix burn cnx.org Richard Baraniuk richb@cnx.org Joel Thierstein jt2@rice.edu