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