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The $5 Textbook
This document discusses the potential for open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks given advances in digital technologies. It notes that digitization allows knowledge and creative works to be shared without being given away through free copying, distribution, and editing. However, copyright currently forbids these crucial actions. The document outlines a pilot program using open textbooks in Utah that found cost savings of over 50% compared to traditional textbooks while maintaining or improving learning outcomes. It envisions a future where digital and open resources could transform education through personalized, diagnostic, and interactive resources at no cost with full local control over content.
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- 1. The $5 Textbook David Wiley Brigham Young University Digital Promise
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- 4. Education Is Sharing the context
- 5. Teachers Share WithStudents knowledge and skills feedback and criticism encouragement
- 6. Students Share WithTeachers questions assignments tests
- 7. If There IsNo Sharing there is no education
- 8. Successful Educators sharemost completely with the most students
- 9. Knowledge is Magical canbe given without being given away
- 10. Physical Expressions AreNot to give a book you must give it away
- 11. Expressions Are Different Togive a book you must give it away
- 12. When Expressions AreDigital they also become magical
- 15. An Indescribable Advance the first time in human history
- 16. Both Knowledge andExpressions can be given without giving away
- 17. Unprecedented Capacity wecan share as never before
- 18. Unprecedented Capacity we caneducate as never before
- 19. What Does “Share”Mean? online it means copy and distribute
- 20. Cost of “Copy” Forone 250 page book: • Copy by hand - $1,000 • Copy by print on demand - $4.50 • Copy by computer - $0.00084
- 21. Cost of “Distribute” Forone 250 page book: • Distribute by mail - $5.20 • Distribute by internet - $0.00072
- 22. Copy and Distributeare “Free” this changes everything
- 23. Educational Sharing also meansadapting or editing
- 24. Sense-making, Meaning-making connecting to prior knowledge relating to past experience (in an appropriate language)
- 25. Digital Makes Editing“Free” editing a printed book or magazine is difficult and expensive
- 26. Free Copy, Distribute,Edit we can share as never before
- 27. Free Copy, Distribute,Edit we can educate as never before
- 28. Except We Can’t ©forbids copying, distributing, and editing
- 29. © Cancels thePossibilities of digital media and the internet
- 30. Internet Copyright Enables Forbids what to do?
- 32. Use copyright toenforce sharing
- 33. The 4Rs Reuse – copy verbatim Redistribute – share with others Revise – adapt and edit Remix – combine with others
- 35. Over 400 MillionItems using CC licenses at end of 2010
- 36. The “Open” inOER free permission to do the 4Rs
- 37. Internet OER Enables Allows sharing and educating at unprecedented scale
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- 41. $80 average HS sciencetextbook cost
- 42. 7 Years average lifeof HS textbook in UT
- 43. Absolutely No highlighting, underlining,note taking
- 44. Classroom Sets 1laptop per child? < 1 textbook per child
- 45. “Open” Textbooks free4R permissions
- 46. 4Rs reuse, revise, remix,redistribute
- 48. Digital or Print whateverlocal infrastructure supports
- 49. Direct Engagement highlighting, underlining,note taking
- 50. Take It Home infact, just keep it
- 51. Free, Right? what doesit cost?
- 52. You Get WhatYou Pay For, Right? will students learn less?
- 55. UOT Pilot, Year1 7 teachers, 1200 students
- 56. 4Rs PD 2 dayswith teachers
- 58. 20% 250 / 1250pages
- 60. What Not ToDo ignore 4Rs, use 3 ring binders, print booklets, print small #s
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- 63. UOT Pilot, Year2 22 teachers, 2700 students
- 64. 20% 250 / 1250pages
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- 67. 7 Year Cycle Open Biology $10.57 $5.16 Chemistry $10.86 $4.89 Earth Systems $10 $4.61 Physics $11.43 N/A
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- 69. From Lulu toCreateSpace price for year 3 will drop $1+
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- 71. USOE Stewardship statewide strategy winter 2012
- 72. Grades 6-12 =278,000 language arts math science
- 73. Cost of TraditionalBooks Over Cycle $61,875,000 Cost of Open Books Over Cycle $28,875,000 Potential Savings Over Entire Cycle $33,000,000 Potential Savings Per Year (at 53%) $4,714,286
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- 76. Some Related Items not just UT, of course
- 77. WA HB 2337 “provideprofessional development programs that offer support, guidance, and instruction regarding the creation, use, and continuous improvement of open courseware”
- 79. Postsecondary Students Pay$35 instead of $150+ per book 300,000 students have saved $39M+
- 80. Postsecondary Students Pay$35 instead of $150 per book 300,000 students have saved $39M+
- 81. Project Kaleidoscope (NGLC) Preliminary research results
- 82. “How would yourate 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%
- 83. “How do youfeel 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%
- 84. “Imagine a futurecourse you are required to take. If two different sections were offered…” Answer Response % I would enroll in the section with 17 13% TRADITIONAL PUBLISHED TEXTS I would enroll in the section with 93 74% TEXTS LIKE THOSE OFFERED IN THIS COURSE I would have no preference 16 13%
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- 87. What Does ItAll Mean? future implications
- 88. Transition to Digital ChairmanGenachowski and Secretary Duncan how do open textbooks support?
- 89. Digital diagnostic and adaptive (interactive)
- 90. Open free full local control (4Rs)
- 91. What If? what woulda digital + open future look like?
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- 93. Thank You http://davidwiley.org/ @opencontent