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OER @ CLRN Brian Bridges California Learning Resource Network The Digital Textbook Revolution

Brian @ CLRN
http://brianbridges.org

California Learning Resource Network
Your one-stop source for standards-aligned electronic learning resources

Electronic Learning Resources
Software, Internet, video, and video streaming
Six subject areas
2500 posted reviews
350/yearly

Free Web Information Links
Reviews of 3,300 free and commercial-free web sites
Primary, secondary, & reference materials
Free software and web tools

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

Disruptive Innovation Theory
Customers’ needs tend to be stable
Companies improve their products
Most innovations improve products for current customers

Sustaining the Camera

Disruptive Innovations…
NOT a breakthrough improvement
Existing customers can not utilize it
And are not attracted to it
Benefit “non consumers”

The Disruptive Cycle
Competing for non-consumers
Technology improves / cost declines
Compete for original customers

Disrupting Music
Digital music = Disruption
CD sales tumble
Is the music industry dying?
“ It’s not the music industry that is dying. It is the CD business.”

New Music Model=Shift of Power
Power shift from label to artist
“ Getting signed” is no longer the goal of every artist
Creation of a new middle class of artists
Greater consumer choice
Jamendo

New Textbook Model?
Power shift from publisher/district to student
Getting “adopted” is no longer the goal of every publisher
Creation of “middle class” of publishers
Greater consumer choice

Indiana SBE
October 2008 Social Studies Texts
Submitted books met textbook criteria
"... do not provide content that is interesting, engaging and supportive of effective student learning ...

Disrupting Textbooks
February 2008
“ You should feel no obligation to utilize the standard form of social studies textbooks."
… allow schools to use computers and data devices, software, internet resources, interactive and other media, and other 'systematically organized material

Virginia
Adopted CK-12 Physics book to supplement HS Physics book

Texas H.B. 4294
Allows state to adopt electronic textbooks
Textbook funds may be used to purchase technological equipment necessary to support electronic textbooks

Texas H.B 4294
eTextbook publishers may submit updated content for review
Districts/schools may select a subscription-based electronic textbook

Texas H.B. 2488
Authorizes colleges or the state to develop open source textbooks for use in classrooms

California Legislation
AB 1398, relating to the use of textbook funds
Redefines “technology-based materials” to include electronic equipment required to use them

California Digital Textbook Initiative
Phase 1: Free or Open Source
High School Math
Geometry, Algebra II, Trigonometry, & Calculus
High School Science
Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, & Physics
Review for Content Standards Only

FDIT Process and Parameters
Downloadable (PDF)
Content “stable” for two years
Publishers completed standards correlation
Received 20 submissions

FDTI Process and Parameters
Resources reviewed at CLRN review sites
After editing, publishers given seven days to comment
Eight books re-reviewed with additional evidence
16 Reviews and CLRN Report Published on August 11 th

Limitations of the FDTI
PDF Format that is little different from a book
Linear in format
Not interactive
Schools lack technology/funds to utilize these electronically

Phase 1 page

FDTI Results

Digital Textbook Survey
Conducted Educational Support Systems
Survey initiated on September 8, 2009
Surveys participants
• 208 administrators who are ACSA members
• 781 educators who are members of CUE, CETPA, and users of CLRN

Are you aware of the FDTI?

The FDTI will save money

The FDTI will increase teaching & learning opportunities

The FDTI will make it possible for textbooks to be updated on a more timely basis

The FDTI should be expanded to include interactive educational applications

Digital Textbook Initiative Phase Two
Free or Open Source
Remaining grades 9-12
Downloadable but not interactive
Format: PDF or ePub

DTI, Phase Two
History-Social Science
Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography
Grade 11: U.S. History and Geography
Grade 12: Principals of American Democracy
Grade 12: Principals of Economics

DTI, Phase Two
Mathematics
Geometry
Algebra II
Trigonometry
Calculus
Linear Algebra
Probability and Statistics

DTI, Phase Two
Science
Biology/Life Sciences
Chemistry
Physics
Earth Sciences

Open Source Collections
The Assayer
CaltechBOOKS
CK-12
Connexions
Science Books Online
Textbook Revolution

FDTI Phase 2 Results
17 Open Source Books
11 with Creative Commons licenses
10 met all the standards for their course
VS. four books in P1
Four P1 books rewritten
Three now meet all standards

Renting Textbooks
A Model of Failure

CourseSmart

CourseSmart
Macroeconomics
List Price: $210
Amazon: $110
Kindle: $88
CourseSmart: $58

CourseSmart Limitations
Access
Read book online OR
Download to A computer
Time
Six month subscription

Rent Textbooks?

Never!!!

Really? You’ve been here before
Discovery Streaming
Learn 360
Safari/Montage

Oregon & Hawaii Just Did
Oregon SBE Adopts Discover Education Science for K-8
Online, subscription site
Textbook, virtual labs, simulations, video clips, & assessments

Digital Textbooks: Next Stop? Electronic textbook = textbook - book

Lecture Streaming
The United Learning Story
United Streaming aka Discovery Streaming
Full Course Lectures
iTunes U
Academic Earth
MIT Open Courseware
YouTube
KhanAcademy

Lecture Streaming
MIT Open Courseware
Linear Algebra, Gil Strang

Educator.com

Electronic Textbook
Electronic Textbook = (Textbook – book) + streamed lecture clips + streaming video clips + interactive apps + multimeda + assessment + “live” links

Benefit of Electronic/Interactive Resources
Easily updated
Student centric
Address a variety of learning modalities

Disruptive Innovation vs Pearson (well, any textbook company) Are they too big to succeed?

Pearson, US CEO Peter Cohen
“ We are now in a transformational period. Everything we have has to be two worlds: print and digital.
The future of learning is going to be high-quality online material and, to a lesser extent, textbooks.’’

Houghton Mifflin Wendy Colby, senior vice president
“ The textbook is no longer the center of the educational universe.”

Disruptive Innovation’s Audience
Non-consumers
Home school
Credit recovery
Charter schools
Tutoring & other non-consumers

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