jacky hood, director, community college open textbook collaborative comparing open repositories for...

Jacky Hood, Director, Community College Open Textbook

Collaborative

Comparing Open Repositories for the

League of Innovation Conference Baltimore, March

31, 2010Goldilocks and the 13

Repositories

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Textbooks

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The Twelve Membersof the College Open

Textbook Collaborative


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Goldilocks and the 13 Repositories

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OCW is not really a repository

Lulu has only a small percentage of open textbooks.

Textbook media is free but not open.

Educational Resources


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• Open educational resources are here, there, and everywhere…

• One person’s ideal repository is another’s dead end.

• Many lists, not so many repositories….

• Most open textbooks are on single-book sites…

Choosing the open repository just right for you

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• Type• Licensing• Disciplines• Quality• Format• Print Options• Ease of Use

Some criteria for choosing an open repository

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• Size• Search tools• Authoring tools• Communities• Business model• Sustainability model• Feedback mechanism• Accessibility• Cost…

Many other criteria


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Evaluating apples licensed for reuse by Kim Montgomery

Type Nuggets, Textbooks, Ancillaries, Complete Courses

Licensing CC BY perhaps with SA, NC, ND; also PD, custom, others

Disciplines Humanities, Science, Math, Social Science, Language, etc.

Quality Authoritative source, reviews (criteria, depth, by whom)

Format O/S, Browser, Downloaded, Mobile Devices. Cost.

Print options Self-printing, print-on-demand, pre-printed. Binding & cost.

Ease of use Tradeoff between adopter, student, and author

Criteria options


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• College Open Textbooks• Advanced Technological Education• Applied Math and Science Education Repo

sitory• OER Commons• Student PIRGS• USG Share• OER Commons• MERLOT

Many lists are not repositories

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http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/thetextbooks/textbooksbysubject.html

http://atecentral.net/

http://amser.org/index.php?P=Home

http://amser.org/index.php?P=Home

http://www.oercommons.org/courses/material_types/textbooks

http://www.studentpirgs.org/open-textbooks/catalog

http://usgshare.org/access/home.do

http://www.oercommons.org/courses/material_types/textbooks

http://www.merlot.org/

Lists can provide reviews and information


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*Peer Reviewed

http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/thereviews.html

Reviews on a list site..


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Chapter by chapter spreadsheet available Reviewer bio on another page of this site.

Textbooks Courseware Crowd-Sourced, K-12, Source Forge,

Free-not-open

Connexions OCW Consortium Textbook Media

Orange Grove Texts+

NROC Hippocampus

WikiBooks

FlatWorld Knowledge

Sofia CK12

Lulu Curriki

Global Text Project Open Text Book

Three groups of repositories


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http://cnx.org/

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

http://www.textbookmedia.com/

http://www.theorangegrove.org/open_textbooks.asp


http://www.hippocampus.org/


http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/


http://sofia.fhda.edu/

http://about.ck12.org/

http://www.lulu.com/

http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/

http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/books

http://www.opentextbook.org/repository/

Type Textbooks, Resources, Courses

Licensing CC BY only

Disciplines Academic

Quality High; some reviewed

Format XML

Print options

PDF, bound

Ease of use Students OK; adopters need training

• Funded by grants and consortium fees

• 16151 modules in 991 collections

• Approximately 12 textbooks

http://www.cnx.org

Rice University Connexions


Textbooks

http://www.cnx.org/

Type Textbooks, Resources, Courses, Ancillaries

Licensing Multiple


Quality Very High due to UPF; some reviewed

Format Mostly PDF

Print options

PDF, bound

Ease of use High for users; limited for modifiers

• Unique relationship with University Press of Florida

• Founder of OnCoReBluePrint inter-state sharing and model

• 100 collections• 165 textbookswww.theorangegrove.org/open_textbooks.asp

www.upf.com

Orange Grove Texts Plus


Textbooks

http://www.oncoreblueprint.org/



http://www.upf.com/

Type Textbooks

Licensing CC BY NC

Disciplines Math, Econ, Business

Quality High

Format

Print options

Self-print and bound

Ease of use Moderately complex for adopters and users; authors by invitation and contract only

• For-profit business model similar to open source software vendors

• Give away textbooks and sell ancillaries and support

• Invited named authors paid royalties for bound copies and ancillaries

www.flatworldknowledge.com

FlatWorld Knowledge


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Type Textbooks and more

Licensing Varied

Disciplines Many

Quality Varied

Format Varied

Print options

Varied

Ease of use Moderate for users; great for authors

• For profit new-age publisher

• Some open textbooks outstanding

• Good print-on-demand capabilities

• Difficult to isolate open content or textbooks; no browse capabiity

www.lulu.com

Lulu


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http://www.lulu.com/

Type Textbooks,

Licensing CC BY 3.0

Disciplines Business, Computing, Education, Health, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences

Quality High

Format Created in Open Office; converted to PDF

Print options Paper and CD or DVD

Ease of use High but limited flexibility

• Affiliated with the University of Georgia

• Grant funded by Jacobs Foundation


Global Text Project


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Type Courses

Licensing Custom* (cc by nc)

Disciplines All academic and most vocational

Quality Generally excellent

Format Varied; eduCommons

Print options

Very limited

Ease of use Excellent; outstanding assistance to members

• Courses stored on a usually dedicated member site

• Grants and memberships* Use, reproduce,

distribute, translate and modify the Materials for educational, non-commercial, and non-monetary gain. Some trails lead to fees….www.ocwconsortium.org

OCW Consortium


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http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

Type Courses (not textbooks)

Licensing Custom

Disciplines Algebra, Biology, Calculus, Environment, Government, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics, US History

Quality Outstanding

Format Media-Rich

Print options Limited

Ease of use Outstanding

• Free to individuals• Grant and fees• Institutions strongly

encouraged to join ($3K to $50K per year)

• Math classes also in Spanish

• New developmental math will be completely open and freewww.hippocampus.org

NROC Hippocampus (MITE)


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Type Courseware

Licensing

Disciplines Computer Science, Geography, Math, Music, Typography,

Quality High

Format Multimedia

Print options

Varied and limited

Ease of use High

• Hosted by Foothill College• Grant funded• Eight courses• Not maintained• Currently creating green

technology course


Sofia


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Type Textbooks

Licensing Copyright all rights reserved

Disciplines Business, Computer Science, English, Ethics,

Quality Outstanding

Format Silverlight

Print options

Multiple


• Advertising and bound copy supported (for profit)

• Compensated authors• Multiple versions• Free with very limited

advertising; $5 without. B/W and color comb-bound copieswww.textbookmedia.com

Textbook Media


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http://www.textbookmedia.com/

Type Textbooks

Licensing CC BY SA

Disciplines All

Quality Varied

Format Wiki; some media

Print options

Limited; awkward

Ease of use Moderate; being improved

• Crowd-sourced• Public donations (cash

and content) business model

http://en.wikibooks.org

WikiBooks


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Type K-12 textbooks

Licensing Custom

Disciplines Most HS Academic

Quality Outstanding

Format Flexbook

Print options

Must register


• 48 grade 12 books; 8 Advanced Placement

• 9 books selected for California Learning Resources Network

http://ck12.org

CK-12


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Type K-12 textbooks and more

Licensing CC BY except referrals

Disciplines Math, Science, Literature, more

Quality Varied

Format Xwiki and various media

Print options

Multiple

Ease of use Moderate

• Moderated crowd-sourced; mix of local and referred

• Chemistry and Earth Science selected for CLRN

• 454 resources for Grades 11-12; 296 resources for college

• Standards tab for each resource; multiple search options

www.curriki.org

Curriki


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Type Textbooks

Licensing CC BY

Disciplines Algebra, Calculus, Econometrics, Logic, Metrics, Statistics

Quality Accurate and boring

Format sharable versioned filesystem (subversion)

Print options

Varied

Ease of use Needs improvement

• Takes persistance to reach the content!

www.opentextbook.org/repository

Open Text Book


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Three important lists


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Type Resources; some textbooks

Licensing Multiple


Quality High due to required three-point reviews

Format Not applicable

Print options

Not applicable

Ease of use Complex so learning requred

• More than 80,000 members

• Started 1998• 20,0000 modules• 701 textbooks• CSU and subscription

funded• Strong reviews;

reviewer trainingwww.merlot.org

MERLOT: a list, not a repository


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Type Modules (pointed) K-12 and college

Licensing CC BY NC SA

Disciplines All

Quality Varied

Format Varied

Print options

Varied

Ease of use Site good; resources vary

• 26,000+ modules• 247 textbooks• Advanced search• Rated and reviewed

by members

www.oercommons.org

OER Commons: a list, not a repository


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Type Textbooks

Licensing CC , PD, other open

Disciplines Most community college academic

Quality Highly varied

Format Highly varied

Print options

Varied and improving

Ease of use Good

• 450 open textbooks listed by discipline

• 80 reviewed; 50 on the schedule

• Very detailed reviews; named peer reviewers

• Accessibility ratings• Grant funded (Hewlett)collegeopentextbooks.or

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College Open Textbooks : a list, not a repository


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• Houston Community College Librarian Angela Secrest’sexcellent slideshow on finding OER: http://library.hccs.edu/oer/discoverandselect.ppt

• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources: http://oerconsortium.org

• College Open Textbooks professional network http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com

• Free open textbook workshops: Spokane April 22, Learn-at-your-own-Pace May 1-31 and August 1-31, MERLOT conference July http://opentextbookadvocatetrainers.ning.com

• Jacky Hood 650 949-7091 [email protected]

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