Openness is a tool that can enable scalable and sustainable solutions for education through open educational resources, MOOCs, and textbooks. Three examples are provided: 1) Lumen Learning, an open textbook publisher; 2) a digital ecosystem for collaborative and open textbook production in Latin America; and 3) using accredited MOOCs to train 30,000 Ecuadorian teachers in 5 years due to their ability to scale. In conclusion, openness provides advantages over traditional models and should be used to enable innovative solutions for education if trust in open approaches can be gained through success stories.

1. Openness as a Tool
Xavier Ochoa
ESPOL
LACLO

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3. Barriers for Open Education?

4. Trust
or the lack of it…

5. Education
Educational Resources
Textbooks
Massive Online Courses
Learning Analytics
are not only solutions to educate the
populations in the XXI century
Open

6. They are the ONLY
scalable
sustainable
viable
effective
efficient
solutions

7. Openness is not an ideology
Openness is a tool
Technological
Legal
Social

8. Three Examples

9. http://lumenlearning.com/
1

13. Openness is not only the same,
it is better

14. 2

15. Textbooks are expensive
Is that true in Latin America?

16. Craveiro, G., Machado, J. and Ortellado, P. O mercado de livros técnicos e científicos no
Brasil: subsídio público e acesso ao conhecimento‖. Available on the Internet
http://www.gpopai.usp.br/relatoriolivros.pdf , 2008. (In Portuguese)

17. We already have a solution!

19. But there is a bigger problem

20. Only 50% of students use
textbooks
Even photocopies / library
basically free books

21. Most textbooks are produced for
another context
No hablar español!
No falar portugues either!

23. No local authors
Little diversity
Content is not relevant
Consumer-only attitude
(Un)expected consequences of
current publishing model

24. Our professors are not used to
write books
But they produce materials

25. Digital Ecosystem for Collaborative
Textbooks Production
A Digital Ecosystem for the Collaborative Production of Open Textbooks: The LATIn
Methodology. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research
Vol. 12, pp. 225-249

27. Open Sharing Community

29. Ecosystem + Wrong License

32. Open Publisher – Non Profit Company

33. Collaborative Open Textbooks is not
just about having free books.
It is a tool that allow us to
experiment new models to solve the
real textbook problem in Latin
American education.

34. Ecuadorian government needs to
train 30.000 teachers in 5 years
They want a master program
3

35. All Ecuadorian universities combined
cannot deal with that scale in such
short time

36. Only logical Solution:
Accredited MOOCs

37. Currently in planning phase
More news soon…

38. In Conclusion…
• Trust can only be gained with success stories
• If Openness provide advantages it will be
used, it will be forgotten otherwise
• Openness should enable innovative solutions

39. Gracias / Thank you / Obrigado
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Xavier Ochoa
xavier@cti.espol.edu.ec
http://ariadne.cti.espol.edu.ec/xavier
Twitter: @xaoch