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Richard Baraniuk

Rice University

Building Communities and

Sharing Knowledge

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motivation – 1999

difficult to connect across concepts, courses, grades, curricula

– ex: mathematics <> engineering <> technology <> policy– K <> 12 <> college <> graduate school <> lifelong learning– curricular stove-piping– disintegration of ideas

difficult to build communities, collaborations among experts, faculty, students– many potential authors shut out– inefficient: no economies of scale– glacial time scales of development and updating

high cost and limited access of high-quality textbooks and learning materials

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vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date

inexpensive

createripmixburn

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createripmixburn

vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date

inexpensive

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

bookshelf

closed $

slow

page [XML modules]

interconnected global repositoryopen source [Creative Commons license]

freefast

1. liberate course materials

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Connexions repository

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textbook / course

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personalized courses

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reuse materials

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authorretainscopyright

but opensaccessviaopenlicense

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2. invite participation

日本語

english

Українська

hausa français

español

لعربية

inclusive communities

grassroots networks

தமி�ழ

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knowledge ecosystem

日本語

english

Українська

hausa français

español

لعربيةதமி�ழ

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create rip mix burn

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createripmixburn

anyone can become an author…

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create

stanfordillinois

michiganwisconsinberkeley

ohio statega tech

uteprice

cambridgenorway

italy[NSF P4I support]

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create

Catherine Schmidt-Jones

600,000+ page views per month

many byUS teachersand faculty

but alsoMongolia…

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create

Sunil Kumar Singh

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create

ripmixburn

anyone can translate, customize, …

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Univ. Texas-El Paso

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createrip

mixburn

assemble a customized course, …

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Vietnam opencourseware

MOET

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“For our teachers, one size never fits all”

Jane Goodall International Spokesperson for TWB

mixTeachers Without Borders

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mix

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mix

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mix

Foothill-De Anza Community College

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growth

Usage August 2007

600k+ users20 million hits

2.5m page viewsfrom 198 countries

250+ textbooks/courses/collections

4000+ Lego modules (August 2007)

2500 in Science, Technology, Mathematics1500 in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Business

from authors worldwide

in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese …

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createripmix

burn

anyone can print their own textbook

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print customized textbooksmodularauthored by communitycontinuously updatedpersonalized on assemblypublished on demand

low costex: 300 page hardbound textbook for $25, not $125(under $15 for 1000+)

sustainability revenue

disintermediation“Craig’s List-ization”

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rice university press

Rice University Press reinvented as all digital press within Connexions (2007)

RUP collaborations/joint publications

– Stanford University Press– Smithsonian Press– Long Tail Press

– University of Michigan Press– Chicago University Press– Columbia University Press– Texas Medical Center– National Academies– Carnegie Foundation– Hewlett Foundation

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$10 + shipping

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lenses

social software for quality control inspiration:

cnx.org/johnDoemsu.edu/cnx

IEEE.org/cnx

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initiatives

createripmixburn

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current initiativesopen-source tools

authoring, course-building, quality control lenses, printing, …platform layer over distributed repositories

outreachLatin America, China (OOPS), Japan (TI), Vietnam (VEF) North Korea (PUST)

content projectsK-12 science and math textbooks “top 10” community college coursesopen textbooks for colleges worldwidecorporate knowledge management and training Rice University Press and university press consortium

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create rip mix burn

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cnx.org

Richard [email protected]

Joel [email protected]

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open access movement

democratization – knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use

draws inspiration from open-source software Linux, Apache, Mozilla, Firefox

enabled by recent developments in info tech