#OAweek14 @ UNCG: OER and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis

@txtbks | #OAweek2014

Open Educational Resources and Solving

the Textbook Cost Crisis

Nicole Allen (nicole@sparc.arl.org)

Director of Open Education, SPARC

UNCG | #OAweek2014 | Oct. 23, 2014

Except where otherwise noted...

SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to

create a more open system of scholarly communication.

www.sparc.arl.org

Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014

www.righttoresearch.org

Openness in Educational Resources

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368

$1,207Average student budget for books

and supplies for the 2013-2014 academic year

Source http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2013-14

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Physics: Principles With Applications, 7th Edition by Douglas C. Giancoli

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://uncg.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBTBListView

Source http://www.coursesmart.com/macroeconomics-fifth-edition/stephen-d-williamson/dp/9780132992787

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Image © from http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/showbiz/heat-director-buddy-cop/

DONE READING?

Source http://www.studentpirgs.org/sites/student/files/reports/A-Cover-To-Cover-Solution_4.pdf

Market Failure

2 in 3Students say they decided against

buying a textbook because the cost is too high

Source http://www.uspirg.org/reports/usp/fixing-broken-textbook-market

1 in 2Students say they have at some point taken fewer courses due to

the cost of textbooks

Source http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf

Students can’t learn

from materials they can’t afford

We can do better.

OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES

Hewlett Foundation Definition:

“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”

Hewlett Foundation Definition:

“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”

1. Free(no cost, no barriers)

2. Reuse Rights(open license or public domain)

Source http://www.soundmagonline.com/copyedit-your-song-titles-maybe-a-history-of-the-comma-in-no-1-pop-songs/ (used without permission under fair use)

You have to ask permission before using ©

material

Open LicensingUses copyright to enable

free sharing and reuse

@txtbks | #OAweek2014See www.opencontent.org for full definition.

The “5R” Permissions

(easy-to-use open licenses)www.creativecommons.org

most free

least free

Slide adapted from Cable Green http://www.slideshare.com/cgreen

not OER

What are OER?

(1) OpenCourseWare

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Captured from http://ocw.mit.edu/about/

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Captured from http://open.umich.edu/education/med

Captured from http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m1/patients-pop-decision-making/fall2011/materials

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Captured from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFU7fUff7PA

(2) OER Repositories

@txtbks | #OAweek2014http://cnx.org

@txtbks | #OAweek2014http://www.oercommons.org

@txtbks | #OAweek2014www.sparc.arl.org

(3) Open Textbooks

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Captured from http://openstaxcollege.org/

Open Textbook (Example)

• Free online

• Free PDF

• Free ePub

• Print $49.73

• Instructor can adapt and distribute

http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Physics: Principles With Applications, 7th Edition by Douglas C. Giancoli

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/feb/osu-open-textbook-initiative-aims-reduce-student-costs-enhance-learning

(4) Open Courses

@txtbks | #OAweek2014http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/

• Free and open courses

• Data driven design that include real time feedback

• Data used to improve materials

• Data also used in research on how students learn

Source https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/lms/students/syllabus.do?section=434add4180020ca60127a17583becaeb

How is OER Supported?

(1) Institutional and State-Funded Initiatives

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://opencourselibrary.org/

• Funded by state legislature

• 81 highest enrollment courses

• Free and low cost materials

• $7M+ savings to date, 4x original investment

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://www.tcc.edu/news/press/2014/zdegreecbn.htm

• Entire 2-year degree that uses OER in every course

• Students can graduate with $0 textbook costs

• Higher course retention rates

• Available to any other college

Source http://www.tcc.edu/news/press/2014/zdegreecbn.htm

(2) Funder Policies

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/

Source http://www.californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/Portals/0/DocDownloads/PressReleases/SEP2013/PRESS_RELEASE_CreativeCommonsBY_090913_FINAL.pdf

(3) Faculty Support

@txtbks | #OAweek2014http://open.umn.edu

• Catalog of open textbooks containing 100+

• Faculty reviews

• Runs workshops at campuses across the country

@txtbks | #OAweek2014http://open.umn.edu

http://www.lumenlearning.org

• Startup company provides soup to nuts support for OER adoption

• Template courses that faculty adapt

• Performs assessments on outcomes

(4) Libraries

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://guides.library.umass.edu/content.php?pid=87648&sid=4778777

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Captured from http://guides.library.umass.edu/content.php?pid=87648&sid=4778777

• Offers mini grants to faculty to switch to OER/affordable materials

• Workshops and consultation sessions for 30+ faculty participants

• $1,000,000 student savings

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source temple.edu

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source: ucla.edu

Impact of OER

$1M student savings, and counting

Supporting Adoption

Adapted from slides by David Wiley available under CC BY at http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent

@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://pm4id.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laurentius_de_Voltolina_001.jpg (public domain)

The Medieval Lecture

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5th_Floor_Lecture_Hall.jpg (CC BY-SA)

The Modern Lecture

Advance our systems for sharing information

toward openness

Open Educational Resources and Solving

the Textbook Cost Crisis

Nicole Allen (nicole@sparc.arl.org)

Director of Open Education, SPARC

UNCG | #OAweek2014 | Oct. 23, 2014

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