CNXDemo

Create Globally. Educate Locally. Jonathan Emmons Community Development Specialist [email_address] 713.348.2392

Open Educational Resources “ OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge.” William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Open Education – Keys to Success
Availability - Anyone and everyone should have access to it, anywhere and any time
Durability (Permanence) - The content should be available indefinitely
Community - Everyone must be able to contribute to knowledge creation process
Reusability - Everyone should be able to re-use the materials in any way they choose
Quality – Content quality, accuracy, and pedagogical value must be demonstrably high
Affordability – The cost, measured in both time and effort, must be low
Usability – Tools for creating and using content must be user friendly
Discoverability -Teachers and students must be able to find high quality materials using terminology and categories that make sense in their community of practice
Sustainability - The cost to create and maintain the repository must be affordable so it becomes part of the education infrastructure
Flexibility - Teachers, learners and authors must be able to use the materials in a convenient format and location

Under the Creative Commons Attribution license . . . Connexions authors license their works to be used and shared by others . . . Provided that proper attribution is maintained. Authors retain the copyright to their works.

History
In 1998, Rich Baraniuk asked himself:
How could he write a great textbook when he was expert in only one discipline of his field?
How could he write a textbook that wasn’t already out of date by the time it was printed?

Problems with Textbooks
The traditional publishing model fails for:
Rapidly changing fields
Advanced/special topics
Lab courses
Underserved populations
Minority opinions
Ideas that are not profitable

Non-profit open education publishing project
Goal: Make high-quality educational content available to anyone, anywhere, anytime for free on the web and at very low cost in print
Open-licensed repository of “Lego® block” modules that comprise courses/collections
Open-source tools enable authors, instructors, and learners to create, rip, mix, and burn modules and collections
Creative Commons open-content licenses

Ideas Information Concepts Module Courses Textbooks Authors Instructors Learners Knowledge Repository

Community-Driven Content Rice University Center for Education (Affiliation Lens) Professor Johnson’s Education 101 (Member List) NCPEA (Endorsement Lens)

Create

Combine

Translate

Open doesn’t have to mean online, but technology creates new opportunities …

New Learning Opportunities

Customized Output
modular
authored by community
continuously updated
personalized on assembly
published on demand
low cost

Connexions http://cnx .org Jonathan Emmons [email_address] 713-348-2392 Supported by: Hewlett Foundation Maxfield Foundation

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CNXDemo

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