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Open Educational Resources and Solving
the Textbook Cost Crisis
Nicole Allen ([email protected])
Director of Open Education, SPARC
UNCG | #OAweek2014 | Oct. 23, 2014
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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
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Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014
www.righttoresearch.org
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Openness in Educational Resources
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@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368
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$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
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://uncg.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBTBListView
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Source http://www.coursesmart.com/macroeconomics-fifth-edition/stephen-d-williamson/dp/9780132992787
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Source http://www.coursesmart.com/macroeconomics-fifth-edition/stephen-d-williamson/dp/9780132992787
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DONE READING?
GOOD
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Source http://www.studentpirgs.org/sites/student/files/reports/A-Cover-To-Cover-Solution_4.pdf
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Market Failure
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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
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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
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Students can’t learn
from materials they can’t afford
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We can do better.
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OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
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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”
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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”
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1. Free(no cost, no barriers)
2. Reuse Rights(open license or public domain)
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“All Rights Reserved” is like “Call Me Maybe”
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
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Open LicensingUses copyright to enable
free sharing and reuse
@txtbks | #OAweek2014See www.opencontent.org for full definition.
The “5R” Permissions
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(easy-to-use open licenses)www.creativecommons.org
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most free
least free
Slide adapted from Cable Green http://www.slideshare.com/cgreen
OER
not OER
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What are OER?
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(1) OpenCourseWare
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Captured from http://ocw.mit.edu/about/
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Captured from http://open.umich.edu/education/med
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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
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(2) OER Repositories
@txtbks | #OAweek2014http://cnx.org
@txtbks | #OAweek2014http://www.oercommons.org
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(3) Open Textbooks
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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
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http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/feb/osu-open-textbook-initiative-aims-reduce-student-costs-enhance-learning
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(4) Open Courses
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• 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
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Source https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/lms/students/syllabus.do?section=434add4180020ca60127a17583becaeb
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Source https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/lms/students/syllabus.do?section=434add4180020ca60127a17583becaeb
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How is OER Supported?
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(1) Institutional and State-Funded Initiatives
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://opencourselibrary.org/
@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
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• 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
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(2) Funder Policies
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/
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Source http://www.californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/Portals/0/DocDownloads/PressReleases/SEP2013/PRESS_RELEASE_CreativeCommonsBY_090913_FINAL.pdf
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(3) Faculty Support
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Image © from http://www.teleread.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/bookstorerummage.jpg
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• Catalog of open textbooks containing 100+
• Faculty reviews
• Runs workshops at campuses across the country
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http://www.lumenlearning.org
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http://www.lumenlearning.org
• Startup company provides soup to nuts support for OER adoption
• Template courses that faculty adapt
• Performs assessments on outcomes
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(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
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Impact of OER
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$1M student savings, and counting
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Supporting Adoption
Adapted from slides by David Wiley available under CC BY at http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laurentius_de_Voltolina_001.jpg (public domain)
The Medieval Lecture
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5th_Floor_Lecture_Hall.jpg (CC BY-SA)
The Modern Lecture
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Advance our systems for sharing information
toward openness
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Open Educational Resources and Solving
the Textbook Cost Crisis
Nicole Allen ([email protected])
Director of Open Education, SPARC
UNCG | #OAweek2014 | Oct. 23, 2014
Except where otherwise noted...