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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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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
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
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
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
“Saving the world from failed sharing”
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)
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