How OER Scales the Student-Teacher
Relationship, NOT the Classroom
Nick Ducoff, VP Content November 8, 2013
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The Internet disrupts all (yes I said disrupts)
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Except for textbooks
College Textbooks
CPI
3x
http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/655066.pdf
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Did you like your life better before this?
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Did you like your life better before this?
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Life has been like this since the 1400’s
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Students demand a better learning experience
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1on1 Teacher 1 to 20 Classroom 1 to 200 Lecture Hall 1 to 200,000 MOOC
Personalized Adaptive
Competency-based
One-size fits all Linear path
Bigger microphone
Scaling the Classroom BOUNDLESS.COM
Scaling education the right way:
Scale the teacher!
Boundless is designed to support teachers not replace them
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Students
Validation
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OER + technology bridges the student gap
Technology
OER
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Learning
➡ Git-based OER hub
➡ Actively helping students learn
OER Technology Students
➡ Fully adaptive to the student’s needs
➡ Reading states, spaced-repetition and interactive quizzes
➡ Curated OER + SmartNotes in over 20 subjects
➡ Free! or $19.99
➡ 88% of students get grade they want or higher
➡ Limited; online versions of textbooks
➡ Handful of large contributors; decentralized
➡ Helping students save money O
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Validation
Learning
Delivering a better learning experience
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EdTech#Investments#(2012)# OER#Spending#(2002>2010)#
$110 million
$1.1 billion
Sources: Crunchbase, Wikipedia
It should be OER + tech, not OER vs. tech
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Questions?
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