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Education is Open for Business
Open Educational Resources Introduction
OER Awareness Among Faculty
OER Adoption: The Worst of Times and The Best of Times by Phil Hill (Oct. 31, 2014)
What are OER?
OER DefinedOpen Educational Resources
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
- William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
full courses course materialsmodules textbooks streaming videos tests software
and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”
OER Can Be …
- William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Why Does OER Matter?
Questions
How often do your students arrive for the first day of class without their textbooks?
Have you ever ordered a textbook and then spent hours and hours creating additional documents or handouts for your students because the textbook isn’t exactly what you need or had errors?
How do we know the materials work for our students? Or are even used by the students?
-Connie Broughton – Open Course Library
Faculty BenefitsAccess: Supplement or replace current curriculum Address student access/readiness/Day 1 Just-in-time materials Appropriate copyright
Customization: Build your own resources from existing OER Add localization/contextualization Academic freedom –unbundle from publisher
Collaboration: Peer Review Collaborative approaches to teaching/learning License your own OER so others can use it
What Faculty Are Using
O P E N I N G T H E C U R R I C U L U M: Open Ed u c a t i o n a l R e s o u rc e s i n U. S . H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n , 2 0 1 4
The Student Dilemma
My Textbook is…
back-ordered in the mail out of stock the wrong edition on hold until my
student loan arrives unnecessary until I
decide I want this course
unnecessary until the exam
How often do students start the term without the resources they need?
David Porter – Bccampus – Beyond Free 11
Cost of Education
Chart from US Government Accountability Office
Data Provided by Lumen Learning
CT Textbook Projections
CT Community Colleges
General Psychology2011-2012
11,000 Students$175 textbook
$1.9 Million
Textbook Costs vs. Student Success
60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
Slide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative Commons via http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/15
Textbook Costs
Rental Costs
OER Cost
OER in Print
Most texts are under
$50 to print
Student Action
CT OER Legislation
HB 6117: An Act Concerning The Use Of Digital Open-Source Textbooks In Higher Education
Open Textbook Pilot Study the Use of OER Build Awareness of OER Report Back to Legislation of Findings Establish OER Task Force for Best Practices
Signed into law July 2, 2015
Higher Ed Opportunity Act
Passed 2008; effective 2010
1. Price Disclosure. Publishers are required to disclose prices and revision information when marketing textbooks to professors.
2. Unbundling. Publishers are required to offer all of the items in textbook bundles for sale separately to give students freedom to buy only what they need.
3. Textbook lists. Colleges need to provide the list of assigned textbooks for each course (including ISBNs and prices) during registration.
http://www.studentpirgs.org/resources/textbook-price-disclosure-law
Affordable College Textbook Act U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME)
Propose a competitive grant program to support the creation and use of open college textbooks
Companion legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives by U.S. Representatives Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX) and Jared Polis (D-CO).
October 8, 2015
OER Impact on Student Success
Kaleidoscope Open Courseware Initiative
How Does OER Work?
Challenges of Copyright
“The Internet makes it easy to create and disseminate information. But copyright law doesn’t currently reflect these new opportunities to share with colleagues and students. By using open copyright licenses on the materials you create, you can share them legally throughout the world and specify how others may use them.”
CC BY – The Regents of the University of Michiganhttp://open.umich.edu/sites/default/files/3659/PDFs/OER-benefits-
handout.pdf
Which is Copyrighted?
Lightning City by Sam Javanrouh – CC BY NC 2.0BTC03 by MrMayo – CC BY NC 2.0
CC Licensing Attributes
Attribution
Non-Commercial
No Derivative Works
Share Alike
“A simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to your creative work.”
Cable Green – Creative Commons - Textbook Rebellion
most free
least free
CC Combinations
See www.opencontent.org for full definition.
• Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
5 Rs of OER Permissions
Who is Using OER?
OER Efforts
OER Initiatives
•Open Course LibraryWashington SBCTC
•Merlot
•Affordable Learning SolutionsCal State
•Open Textbook LibraryUMinn
•Z DegreeTidewater CC
•Eliminating all undergrad publisher textbooks by Fall 2016UMUC
Maricopa Community Colleges
CT Success Story
Projected Savings 1 Academic Year: over $200,000
$260
$30
CT: Affordable by Design
• Dr. Allison Speicher• ENG 321:
The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story
• Free/Public Domain Materials• Student Cost: $4
• Dr. Christopher Kukk• COM/PS 273: Politics in Film• Free/Library Materials• Student Cost: $0
Where Do You Start?
How Do You Begin?
Start small.
Explore existing OER
Supplement existing course materials
Enlist Library and/or ID Help
Develop a habit of working in teams
Augment course materials
Consider publishing
OpenStax College
OER Commons
Cal State – ISBN Search
My Open Math
Open Textbook Library
Flickr OER Images
YouTube OER
Creative Commons Media Search
Google Advanced Search
