Connexions: Create Globally, Educate Locally

Create Globally,

Educate Locally

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Concepts

Module

CoursesTextbooks

Authors

Instructors

Learners

Knowledge Repository

Connexions Growth

Over 16,000 modules woven into nearly 1000 collections

8900 in Science, Technology, Mathematics5000 in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Business

35,000+ versions of modules

from over 1000 authors worldwide in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Portuguese, Finnish Chinese, Japanese, Thai Vietnamese …

Monthly Usage Approximations: 1.5 million + visits

70 million + hits3.5 million + page views

from 190 + countries

Nearly 1000 different collections (textbooks, courses, reports,

manuals) in Connexions

+ Chemistry, Electronics, Ethics, Physics,

LabVIEW, Art History, Galileo, World History...

Existing Content

Modularization

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Module

CoursesTextbooks

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Learners

Knowledge Repository

Capturing the power of Web 2.0 while maintaining quality

• Social networking v. quality

Lenses

Lenses

social software for peer reviewscalable and distributed

RiceK-12

CommunityCollege

Repository

Permanent Versioning

Openness

The Most Open License

CC-BY

Distribution

Online version

Download and print

Buy hard copy

Online View

Customization

LIGHTWEIGHT BRANDING

Branding – Full Customization

ZONING

Children

Repository

Enterprise Rhaptos

Business Model

Enterprise Rhaptos

Connexions www.cnx.org

Joel ThiersteinJoel.Thierstein@cnx.org

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