Beyond the Textbook: Information Futures

David Wiley, PhDBrigham Young University

The $100M Question

Standard deviations or people?

Textbook Market is Broken

Chooser is not the payer

Textbooks – How Overpriced?

Provider CostNetflix – 20,000 Movies and TV $7.99 / monthHulu Plus – 45,000 Movies and TV $7.99 / monthSpotify – 15 million Songs $9.99 / month

CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $20.25 / month

Writing

Leaving an idea behind

Books

Make writing affordable

Affordability

Increases participation

New Media

Leaving behind ideas as images, audio, and video

Analog to Digital

Bigger than handwriting to print

Affordability

Increases participation

Cost to Copy

For a 250 page book:

• Copy by hand - $1,000

• Copy by print on demand - $4.50

• Copy by computer - $0.00084

Cost to Distribute

For a 250 page book:

• Distribute by mail - $5.20

• Distribute by internet - $0.00072

Copy and Distribute are Free

We can share ideas like never before

Except We Can’t

© forbids copying and distributing

© Cancels the Possibilities

Of the internet

InternetEnables

What to do?

CopyrightForbids

Use copyright to enforce sharing

The 4Rs

Reuse – copy verbatimRedistribute – share with others

Revise – adapt and editRemix – combine with others

The “Open” in OER

Free permission to do the 4Rs

InternetEnables

OERAllows

Sharing at unprecedented scale

Participation + Digital Economics

“Drake Equation” for OER

Number of ideas left behind

…that use an open license

…about a given topic

…high quality

Drake Equation for OER

Number of ideas left behind

…that use an open license

…about a given topic

…high quality

Drake Equation for OER

> 500M

Past the Tipping Point

There are “enough” OER

Open High School of Utah

Online public charter schoolTop online high school in UTTop 10% of all high schools

Uses only OER

Utah Open Textbooks

< $5> 5%

6,000 as of 2012-201375,000 in 2013-2014

Kaleidoscope

College-level10 general education courses

$0 required textbooks> 10%

Textbook Zero

Entire Associate’s Degree program$0 required textbooks30% off cost of degree

Fall 2013

Innovation in the Future

Not just increasing effectiveness

Increasing access and participation

Whew!

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