create globally, educate locally. open textbooks, learning objects, and learning solutions going...
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Create Globally, Educate Locally
Open Textbooks,Learning Objects,
and Learning Solutions
Going Mobile
Learning environment
•Change = Opportunity
Location of learner
• In class• At home• On the bus• At work• ....
Time of learning
• Time of day• Length of time in one sitting• Time between sittings• Time of life
Lifelong learner
Type of learner
• New markets– Global– Access– Customized
Type of learning
• Blended learning– Based on learner– Based on subject matter
Type of learning
• Just in time learning
Ideas Information
Concepts
Module
CoursesTextbooks
Authors
Instructors
Learners
Knowledge Repository
Online version
Download and print
Buy hard copy
Online View
Connexions Growth
Over 16,000 modules woven into nearly 1000 collections
7700 in Science, Technology, Mathematics4600 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 + hits3.5 million + page views
from 190 + countries
Nearly 1000 different collections (textbooks, courses, reports,
manuals) in Connexions
+ Chemistry, Electronics, Ethics, Physics,
LabVIEW, Art History, Galileo, World History...
Existing Content
Modularization
Ideas Information
Concepts
Module
CoursesTextbooks
Authors
Instructors
Learners
Knowledge Repository
Openness
Create
Capturing the power of Web 2.0 while maintaining quality
• Social networking v. quality
Lenses
Lenses
Social Software For Peer ReviewScalable And Distributed
Rice University
Florida NCPEA
Permanent Versioning
Frictionless Remixing
The Technology
XML
OAI-PMH
The Most Open License
CC-BY
Customization
LIGHTWEIGHT BRANDING
Branding – Full Customization
ZONING
Children
Enterprise Rhaptos
Distribution
Online version
Download and print
Buy hard copy
Online View
Multiple formats
XML
Business Model
Content Creation
Content Maintenance/Update
Delivery Platform Maintenance
Enterprise Rhaptos
Delivery Platform Upgrade
Turning Those Changes in Latitude...
Into Changes in Attitude
Access to Education
Tuitioncost
Textbookcost
Collaborative Statistics
Barbara Illowsky & Susan Dean
Success
44
The customization
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
Collaborative Statistics
• Estimated cost savings to students ~ $200,000 in the first year
• Roughly 50% of students bought a hard copy of textbook
K-12
Improving Quality
Step-Change in Education Quality
• 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 freeEducational spending is on learning not
textbooks Step change in education
Improving QualityEverybody gets access to all
content/research immediatelyCapture intellectual capital
Easily Customizable Content Increased academic freedom
More accurate up-to-date materialMore culturally relevant material
Lowering Student Cost Increase in the accessibility to
higher education
Connexions Learning Materials A Powerful Solution
