The $5 Textbook

The $5 Textbook David WileyBrigham Young University Digital Promise

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Education Is Sharing the context

Teachers Share With Students knowledge and skills feedback and criticism encouragement

Students Share With Teachers questions assignments tests

If There Is No Sharing there is no education

Successful Educators share most completely with the most students

Knowledge is Magicalcan be given without being given away

Physical Expressions Are Not to give a book you must give it away

Expressions Are DifferentTo give a book you must give it away

When Expressions Are Digital they also become magical

An Indescribable Advance the first time in human history

Both Knowledge and Expressions can be given without giving away

Unprecedented Capacity we can share as never before

Unprecedented Capacitywe can educate as never before

What Does “Share” Mean?online it means copy and distribute

Cost of “Copy”For one 250 page book:• Copy by hand - $1,000• Copy by print on demand - $4.50• Copy by computer - $0.00084

Cost of “Distribute”For one 250 page book:• Distribute by mail - $5.20• Distribute by internet - $0.00072

Copy and Distribute are “Free” this changes everything

Educational Sharingalso means adapting or editing

Sense-making, Meaning-making connecting to prior knowledge relating to past experience (in an appropriate language)

Digital Makes Editing “Free” editing a printed book or magazine is difficult and expensive

Free Copy, Distribute, Edit we can share as never before

Free Copy, Distribute, Edit we can educate as never before

Except We Can’t© forbids copying, distributing, and editing

Internet CopyrightEnables Forbids what to do?

Use copyright to enforce sharing

The 4Rs Reuse – copy verbatimRedistribute – share with others Revise – adapt and edit Remix – combine with others

Over 400 Million Itemsusing CC licenses at end of 2010

The “Open” in OERfree permission to do the 4Rs

Internet OEREnables Allows sharing and educating at unprecedented scale

$80average HS science textbook cost

7 Yearsaverage life of HS textbook in UT

Absolutely Nohighlighting, underlining, note taking

Classroom Sets 1 laptop per child?< 1 textbook per child

“Open” Textbooks free 4R permissions

4Rsreuse, revise, remix, redistribute

Digital or Printwhatever local infrastructure supports

Direct Engagementhighlighting, underlining, note taking

Take It Homein fact, just keep it

Free, Right?what does it cost?

You Get What You Pay For, Right? will students learn less?

UOT Pilot, Year 17 teachers, 1200 students

4Rs PD2 days with teachers

20%250 / 1250 pages

What Not To Doignore 4Rs, use 3 ring binders, print booklets, print small #s

Learning Impacts?

Statisticsmean = +3%median = -1%

UOT Pilot, Year 222 teachers, 2700 students

20%250 / 1250 pages

$5.35$14,400 / 2690

7 Year Cycle Open Biology $10.57 $5.16 Chemistry $10.86 $4.89Earth Systems $10 $4.61 Physics $11.43 N/A

53%savings in year 2

From Lulu to CreateSpace price for year 3 will drop $1+

Calculatorhttp://opencontent.org/calculator/

USOE Stewardship statewide strategy winter 2012

Grades 6-12 = 278,000 language arts math science

Cost of Traditional Books Over Cycle $61,875,000Cost of Open Books Over Cycle $28,875,000Potential Savings Over Entire Cycle $33,000,000Potential Savings Per Year (at 53%) $4,714,286

Some Related Items not just UT, of course

WA HB 2337“provide professional development programs that offer support,guidance, and instruction regarding the creation, use, and continuousimprovement of open courseware”

Postsecondary Students Pay $35 instead of $150+ per book300,000 students have saved $39M+

Postsecondary Students Pay $35 instead of $150 per book300,000 students have saved $39M+

Project Kaleidoscope (NGLC) Preliminary research results

“How would you rate the quality of the texts used for this course?”Answer Response %WORSE than… 4 3%About the SAME AS… 67 56%BETTER than… 49 41%

“How do you feel about the online format of the texts used…?”Answer Response %I like it MORE than … 65 52%I have no preference 38 31%I like it LESS than… 21 17%

“Imagine a future course you are required to take. If two different sections were offered…”Answer Response %I would enroll in the section with 17 13%TRADITIONAL PUBLISHED TEXTSI would enroll in the section with 93 74%TEXTS LIKE THOSE OFFERED INTHIS COURSEI would have no preference 16 13%

What Does It All Mean? future implications

Transition to DigitalChairman Genachowski and Secretary Duncan how do open textbooks support?

Digitaldiagnostic and adaptive (interactive)

Open freefull local control (4Rs)

What If?what would a digital + open future look like?

Thank Youhttp://davidwiley.org/ @opencontent

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