richard baraniuk rice university building communities and sharing knowledge
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Richard Baraniuk
Rice University
Building Communities and
Sharing Knowledge
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
vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date
inexpensive
createripmixburn
createripmixburn
vibrant interactivecommunityconnectedinnovativeup-to-date
inexpensive
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
bookshelf
closed $
slow
page [XML modules]
interconnected global repositoryopen source [Creative Commons license]
freefast
1. liberate course materials
Connexions repository
textbook / course
personalized courses
reuse materials
authorretainscopyright
but opensaccessviaopenlicense
2. invite participation
日本語
english
Українська
hausa français
español
لعربية
inclusive communities
grassroots networks
தமி�ழ
knowledge ecosystem
日本語
english
Українська
hausa français
español
لعربيةதமி�ழ
create rip mix burn
createripmixburn
anyone can become an author…
create
stanfordillinois
michiganwisconsinberkeley
ohio statega tech
uteprice
cambridgenorway
italy[NSF P4I support]
create
Catherine Schmidt-Jones
600,000+ page views per month
many byUS teachersand faculty
but alsoMongolia…
create
Sunil Kumar Singh
create
ripmixburn
anyone can translate, customize, …
rip
Univ. Texas-El Paso
rip
createrip
mixburn
assemble a customized course, …
Vietnam opencourseware
MOET
“For our teachers, one size never fits all”
Jane Goodall International Spokesperson for TWB
mixTeachers Without Borders
mix
mix
mix
Foothill-De Anza Community College
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 …
createripmix
burn
anyone can print their own textbook
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”
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
$10 + shipping
lenses
social software for quality control inspiration:
cnx.org/johnDoemsu.edu/cnx
IEEE.org/cnx
initiatives
createripmixburn
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
create rip mix burn
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