Presentation made at Open Education 2013

1. LATIN: Latin American Open
Textbooks Initiative
Xavier Ochoa

2. Steal this presentation!
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3. Textbooks are expensive
In Latin America, they are
REALLY expensive

4. 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)

5. We already have a solution!

7. Oh… you want a legal solution

8. #fotocopiasuy

9. But there is a bigger problem

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

11. Most textbooks are produced for
another context
No hablar español!

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

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

19. Collaboration Methodologies

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

21. Digital Ecosystem for Collaborative
Textbooks Production
Because it sounds better than:
“We copied the model of Connexions"

23. Authors Community

24. Open Community

25. Sharing Community

27. Ecosystem + Wrong License

28. Technological Platform
Because we need to justify all the CS
people in the project

30. Reuse!

35. Adoption Strategies
Because it is not enough to write
books, somebody have to read them
(our friends do not count)

36. Pilot Experiments

37. How do you know if there is interest
in creating collaborative open
textbooks in Latin America?
Launch a contest!

38. 90 Communities
47 Proposals
25 Books Selected
144 Professors currently writing
… of course we expected it!

39. Books ready by January 2014
Usage pilot by November 2014
Surveys, measurements and metrics
galore!

40. Open Publisher – Non Profit Company

41. 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.

42. Gracias / Thank you / Obrigado
Visit us:
www.latinproject.org
comunidad.proyectolatin.org
escritura.proyectolatin.org
Xavier Ochoa
xavier@cti.espol.edu.ec
http://ariadne.cti.espol.edu.ec/xavier
Twitter: @xaoch