Share and Share Alike

Finding and Authoring Open

ICT Textbooks

Una Daly, College Open Textbooks

Mid-Pacific ICT Conference

January 6, 2011

College Open Textbook Collaborative

200+ colleges

Tell us a little about yourself ...

• Your Name• Your College

• What you want to learn about open textbooks

Broken Textbook Business Model

• Students spend $900/year on average.

• Prices 3 x inflation rate.

• Academic authors often paid poorly.

• New editions published frequently eliminate

used textbook market.

Source: student PIRGs Affordable Textbooks 2010, GAO

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Why Open Collaboration?

• Open Source Model

• Digital Info Age

• Educational Equity

Open Source Benefits

• Community Development• Inspires developers to reuse• Produces better code

• Fuels Innovation

Leonid Mamchenkov Flickr CC-BY

AJC1 Flickr CC-BY

Wikimedia.org/commons

Digital Information Age

Educational Equity

• 26% of tuition @ public 4-years

• 72% of tuition @

Community Colleges

An open textbook is…

• Modifiable by instructor– Digital, Modular– Adaptable

• Low cost to students– Free for those with computers

and internet access

Labeled for reuse by MrKCoolsPhotostream

An open textbook has been…

• Copyright All Rights Reserved to

• Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved

From the Creative Commons store

Finding Open Textbooks

• By Subject

• Peer Reviews

• Accessibility Reviews

• Faculty Resources

• Best Practices Community

Open License vs. CopyrightWhat’s the Same? What’s Different?

Copyright Case Studies

Case 1: True or False: Any presentation slides that I would use in the class room I could also publish as OER simply by posting online.

Case 2: True or False: You can NOT use a scanned photo from a textbook that says “© 1980 All right reserved” on the cover page in OER.

Case 3: True or False: You can use a free, online article without copyright (©) notification in OER.

Source: michigan open wiki, http://open.umich.edu/dScribe

Open Licensing Options

Photo: Artegalia ccbyncnd

Creative Commons CC-BY

Public Domain– Author’s life plus 70 years– freely given away– Government documents

GNU Free Documentation License

Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons

• Author limits copyright

• Promotes sharing

• Internationally recognized

http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

“Saving the world from failed sharing”

CC Search for Open Images, Music, Videos

Why write open textbooks?

• Improve learning outcomes

• Increase your impact– Free translations …

• Collaborate with others– engineers, artists, publishers

• Improve print sales

Chuck SeveranceDr. Chuck

• Software developer, professor,

open textbook author, inventor

O’Reilly © to Open License Textbooks Revised Open Textbook

Barbara Illowsky, PhDDe Anza College

• Instructor, Author, Speaker

Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP

Downloadable version: $77.50

Book version: $160.00

Downloadable & online versions: FREE

Book version: $30.00 (softbound)

Authoring & Content Distribution

• Connexions

• Wikibooks

• iTunesU

Connexions RepositoryRice University

• Import Word files or edit pages– Versioning

• Open License

• Export PDF or ePub– Print on Demand

• Peer Reviews and Lenses

Connexions Growth

Nearly 17,000 modules woven into over 1000 collections

7700 in Science, Technology, Mathematics4600 in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Business 35,000+ versions of modules

from over 1000 authors worldwide in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai , and Vietnamese …

Monthly UsageApproximations: 1 million + visits50 million + hits

2.5 million + page viewsfrom 200 + countries

WikibooksOpen-content textbooks

• Create collection of wiki pages– versioning

• Open licensing– Share-alike

• Export to PDF

• Featured Books

Wikibook Philosophy

• Enables you, the WRITERWRITER, to teach a subject that you know.

• Enables READERS READERS to learn the subject, without paying exorbitant prices of textbooks.

• Inspires WIKIBOOKIANsWIKIBOOKIANs to contribute to your book, making it a better resource.

iTunes U Content Distribution

• Not an authoring platform– Pages™ can be used to create ePub content

• Open and copyrighted material from educational institutions.

• Export to ePub and PDF

• Quality ensured by institutionFHKE cc-by Flickr

iTunes U Content Distribution

• More than 800 universities– Oxford, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley …– Half distribute publicly

• Beyond Campus Materials– Museums, libraries, etc

• Lectures, books, mp3, videos, …

• Institutions post to their site

Accessible & Mobile

• ePUB is new standard– Converts to DAISY

• PDF is often inaccessible– Structural markups missing– Cannot be reflowed for

mobile devices– Primarily a print format

DAISY (Digital Accessible Info System) Reader

Join Us

• Join College Open Textbookshttp://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com

• Join the OER College Consortium http://oerconsortium.org

• Visit College Open Textbooks Resources http://collegeopentextbooks.org