richard baraniuk international experiences with open educational resources
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Richard Baraniuk
International Experienceswith Open
Educational Resources
knowledge forms a network
art history
linguistics
proteomics
algebrageometry
nanotubes
knowledge forms a network
networks enable new means to develop and share knowledge
global author community
open repository of free lessons and curriculum
teachers anywhere build
customized texts
students everywherehave free access
many output formats
unexpected consequences
Catherine Schmidt-Jones
private music teacher, USAmusic theory textbooks25 million uses to datein official curriculum inMongolia
Sunil Kumar Singh engineer and parent, Indiaphysics textbook8 million uses to datemost use in USA
IEEEquality review of open materials(IEEEcnx.org)
Siyavulahigh school science texts for South Africa
Government of Vietnamdeveloping new curriculum at 40 universities
OpenStax Collegedeveloping a library of free college textbooks
some Connexions partners
Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croation, Spanish, Thai, Tsonga, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietanmese
from Signal and Systems…
5 million uses to date
…to Señales y Sistemas
4x more popular in Spanish!
plan Spanish translations
other languages coming soon!
open college textbooks
phase 1(published)
phase 2(2013/14)
massive open online course (MOOC)
video lectures social space
computer-based assessment
online textbook
"MOOCs are increasingly an international phenomenon," says Andrew Ng, cofounder of Coursera, the largest of the MOOC providers
60% of Coursera's students are from outside of the United States
Coursera has added a number of courses taught in Italian, German, Chinese, French and Spanish
outreach
inreach