Transcript Connections Overview

IEEE-SPS / Connexions
Joint Project on
Open Access Education
Richard Baraniuk
Sidney Burrus
Joel Thierstein
Connexions
Rice University
Ray Wagner
executive summary
IEEE-SPS/Connexions partnership on
high-quality, certified, open-access
educational content on signal processing
– IEEE content development project for K-12
to lifelong learning for practicing engineers
– IEEE certification process for open-access
educational modules and courses
new opportunity for IEEE-SPS outreach
and visibility
IEEE-SPS members gain access to and ability
to contribute to a high quality open SP
educational repository
open access movement
guiding principle: knowledge should be free
and open to use and re-use
draws inspiration from open-source software
Linux, Apache, Mozilla, Firefox
enabled by recent developments in info tech
author
retains
copyright
but
opens
access
via
open
license
200+ million
licensed works
Connexions
(cnx.org)
• non-profit open education publishing project
• goal: make high-quality educational content available
to anyone, anywhere, anytime for free
on the web and at very low cost in print
• open-licensed repository of Lego-block
modules that comprise courses/collections
• open-source tools enable authors,
instructors, and learners to
create, rip, mix, burn modules and courses
• Creative Commons open-content licenses, XML tools
Connexions
(cnx.org)
• founded in 1999 by Richard Baraniuk,
Sidney Burrus, Don Johnson (Rice faculty)
• initial content base created in signal processing
– now also engineering, science, mathematics, statistics,
computing, K-12 science and music, history, anthropology,
business, …
– translations in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, …
– 250+ courses, 4500+ modules
• global reach:
600k users monthly
20 million hits
from 198 countries
50% of hits outside USA
one of the most-used open education web sites
dsp in Connexions
stanford
illinois
michigan
wisconsin
berkeley
ohio state
ga tech
utep
rice
cambridge
norway
italy
[NSF P4I support]
spanish translation
Univ. Texas-El Paso
selected partners
lenses
certification by peer review filtering
lenses
certification by peer review filtering
ieee.org/sp/cnx
cnx.org/ieee-sp
cnx.org/lenses/ni
stanford.edu/cnx
benefits to IEEE-SPS
• free and convenient educational materials development and
delivery platform for the SP community-at-large
• new opportunity for IEEE-SPS visibility and
brand recognition
• outreach opportunity beyond the traditional borders of signal
processing
(extending to practitioners, educators, and students at all
levels from K-12 through PhD)
• new outlet for authors’ unpublished educational materials
• new community building tool
• SPS taking lead in potentially IEEE-wide initiative
proposed project
1. IEEE-SPS open-access content
development
2. IEEE-SPS review/certification (lens)
proposed project (1)
IEEE-SPS open-access content development
• from individual modules to complete
courses/textbooks
• existing SPS Connexions content from
don johnson, doug jones, rob nowak, nick kingsbury, justin romberg,
j-c pesquet, lee potter, phil schniter, clay scott, ivan selesnick, sidney
burrus, richard baraniuk, ed doering, davide rocchesso, anders
gjendemsjø, minh do…
• informal commitments to develop content from
martin vetterli and jelena kovacevic (wavelets and subband coding
book), charlie bouman, jan allebach, ed delp, mark smith, stephen
mcLaughlin (CUP), al hero (CUP), julius smith, jean yves tourneret,
patrick flandrin, mari ostendorf, alex acero, …
proposed project (2)
IEEE-SPS review/certification (lens)
– IEEE-SPS to review and certify Connexions
open-access materials
– possible solution:
 small oversight/editorial board
 responsible for identifying reviewers
and making editorial decisions
?
cnx.org
proposed project (1)
IEEE-SPS open-access content development
• from individual modules to complete courses/textbooks
• initial focus on 3-4 content areas (TBD) – e.g. theory and
methods, biometrics, imaging, image processing, video, speech
• each area to have a “champion”
• volunteer translation into Spanish and Chinese
• existing SP Connexions content from
don johnson, doug jones, rob nowak, nick kingsbury, justin romberg,
j-c pesquet, lee potter, phil schniter, clay scott, ivan selesnick, sidney
burrus, richard baraniuk, ed doering, davide rocchesso, anders
gjendemsjø, minh do…
• informal commitments to develop content from
martin vetterli and jelena kovacevic (wavelets and subband coding
book), charlie bouman, jan allebach, ed delp, mark smith, stephen
mcLaughlin (CUP), al hero (CUP), julius smith, jean yves tourneret,
patrick flandrin, mari ostendorf, alex acero, …
action plan
• develop IEEE-SPS/CNX agreement re asset allocation
(equipment, staffing, etc.)
– (potentially) hire IEEE-SPS project manager
– ray wagner to act as CNX liaison
• populate small oversight/editorial board
– hammer out criteria and process for lens certification
• content development
– identify champions and invite authors in initial focus areas
– develop best practices documentation
– LaTeX/Word to XML conversion process/tools
• visibility
– booth and free tutorials at ICASSP 2008 and ICIP 2009
– calls for participation and progress reports in Signal
Processing Magazine, Spectrum
• anticipated rollout: january 2008 for initial contributions