beyond the textbook: information futures
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Talk delivered at the NYU Information Futures forum. November, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Beyond the Textbook: Information Futures
David Wiley, PhDBrigham Young University
The $100M Question
Standard deviations or people?
Textbook Market is Broken
Chooser is not the payer
Textbooks – How Overpriced?
Provider CostNetflix – 20,000 Movies and TV $7.99 / monthHulu Plus – 45,000 Movies and TV $7.99 / monthSpotify – 15 million Songs $9.99 / month
CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $20.25 / month
Writing
Leaving an idea behind
Books
Make writing affordable
Affordability
Increases participation
New Media
Leaving behind ideas as images, audio, and video
Analog to Digital
Bigger than handwriting to print
Affordability
Increases participation
Cost to Copy
For a 250 page book:
• Copy by hand - $1,000
• Copy by print on demand - $4.50
• Copy by computer - $0.00084
Cost to Distribute
For a 250 page book:
• Distribute by mail - $5.20
• Distribute by internet - $0.00072
Copy and Distribute are Free
We can share ideas like never before
Except We Can’t
© forbids copying and distributing
© Cancels the Possibilities
Of the internet
InternetEnables
What to do?
CopyrightForbids
Use copyright to enforce sharing
The 4Rs
Reuse – copy verbatimRedistribute – share with others
Revise – adapt and editRemix – combine with others
The “Open” in OER
Free permission to do the 4Rs
InternetEnables
OERAllows
Sharing at unprecedented scale
Participation + Digital Economics
“Drake Equation” for OER
Number of ideas left behind
…that use an open license
…about a given topic
…high quality
Drake Equation for OER
Number of ideas left behind
…that use an open license
…about a given topic
…high quality
Drake Equation for OER
> 500M
Past the Tipping Point
There are “enough” OER
Open High School of Utah
Online public charter schoolTop online high school in UTTop 10% of all high schools
Uses only OER
Utah Open Textbooks
< $5> 5%
6,000 as of 2012-201375,000 in 2013-2014
Kaleidoscope
College-level10 general education courses
$0 required textbooks> 10%
Textbook Zero
Entire Associate’s Degree program$0 required textbooks30% off cost of degree
Fall 2013
Innovation in the Future
Not just increasing effectiveness
Increasing access and participation
Whew!
http://davidwiley.org/@opencontent