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From Textbooks to FlexBooks – OER Model :From Textbooks to FlexBooks – OER Model Sept 24th, 2009


Open Educational Resources? :Open Educational Resources?


OER :OER Free Community/Individually Created Customizable Collaborative Legally Unrestrictive (Many Degrees)


EdTech :EdTech Democratization of Information/Knowledge Massive Customization vs. One-Size-Fits-All Content Multimodal Learning Collaboration/Social Learning Unrestricted Authentic Learning – Interest and In-depth Learning Learning Does NOT Stop Once Instructor Leaves The Classroom


Web Impact :Web Impact Web 1.0 Web 2.0 OER Copy Right Content Closed Collaborate Community Centralized Decentralized


Why Flexbooks? :Why Flexbooks?


Slide 8:CK-12 provides an online free customizing and publishing system.


Slide 9:Also provides customizable curricula for K-12 in STEM subjects for individual student needs


Content :Content Developed textbooks for HS Bio, Earth science, Life Science, Chemistry, Physics, Contemporary Physics, Engineering Algebra 1, Calculus, Geometry, Math Analysis, Prob. & Statistic, Trigonometry, History, Economics, English Composition, Programming Book, MS Earth science, Life science Math 6, Math7 ES Alg. readiness – K-7th


: “Mix-and-match” K-12 based search Decompose textbook e.g. chapters Editor Customize content Multi-faceted output Read online via online reader Templates for print


Slide 12:Is It Possible To Produce Free Instructional Material Required For K-12?


Slide 13:David Armstrong Jim Batterson Mark Clemente Angela Cutshaw Bruce Davidson Mike Fetsko Pranav Gokhale Andy Jackson Tapas Kar Mark Mattson Gregory Mulholland Tom O’Neil John Ochab David Slykhuis David Stern Tony Wayne by Commonwealth of Virginia & CK-12 Foundation


Slide 14:But Can It Be High Quality?


Slide 15:http://about.ck12.org/ca/freetextbooks


Slide 16:Can It Be Sustained?


Slide 17:?


Slide 18:Financial Test of Time Focus


Slide 19:What Hinders OERs Progress?


Slide 20:Perception Participation Policy Legal Awareness


CK-12 Future Features :CK-12 Future Features More Automation Converting other formats e.g. MS Word As easy as email Architectural V 2.0 (smaller grain size lessons) Multimedia Highlights and annotations New Templates for print (LaTeX) Online Reader – more features Community – e.g. donations, creations, and rating and reviewing Integration into Moodle, iPhone, Netbooks, Kindle


Slide 22:Small Amount of Content Different Subjects Different Languages Different Levels of Difficulty Text + Notebook However All FREE, CUSTOMIZABLE, AND COLLABORATIVE FlexBooks System Allows:


neeru@ck12.orgmurugan@ck12.orgwww.ck12.org :neeru@ck12.orgmurugan@ck12.orgwww.ck12.org