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Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis Through OER
Nicole Allen ([email protected])
Director of Open Education, SPARC
NERCOMP | September 22, 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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@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgSource 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 | sparc.arl.orgMacroeconomics (5th Edition) by Stephen D. Williamson
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Source http://www.studentpirgs.org/sites/student/files/reports/A-Cover-To-Cover-Solution_4.pdf
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Conventional Measures
Used Books
Rentals
E-Books
E-Readers
25%
61%
52%
39%
http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/cover-cover-solution
% Student Savings Over New Print Text
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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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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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Open LicensingUses copyright to enable
free sharing and reuse
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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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The “5R” Permissions
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OpenCourseWare
@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgCaptured from http://ocw.mit.edu/about/
@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgCaptured 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 | sparc.arl.orgCaptured from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFU7fUff7PA
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OER Repositories
@txtbks | sparc.arl.orghttp://cnx.org
@txtbks | sparc.arl.orghttp://www.oercommons.org
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Open Textbooks
@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgCaptured from http://openstaxcollege.org/
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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
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http://www.bkstr.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&categoryId=9602&langId=-1&productId=4000000000002535744&storeId=216405&productStoreId=216405
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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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Open Courses
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http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/free-open/introductory-psychology-course-details/
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Institutional Initiatives
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81 Courses
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All OER 2-Year Degree
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Funder Policies
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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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Faculty Support
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Image © from http://www.teleread.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/bookstorerummage.jpg
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100+ open textbooks
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http://www.lumenlearning.org
@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgSource http://guides.library.umass.edu/content.php?pid=87648&sid=4778777
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Impacts
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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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What can you do?
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What course content are faculty members using? Can it be supplemented or replaced with OER?
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What PD and instructional design services are offered?
Can OER be part of them?
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Where is content being created on campus?
Can it be licensed as OER?
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How does your campus disseminate content?
Can it support sharing OER?
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2014 theme is “Generation Open”
http://www.openaccessweek.org
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November 19-21 | Washington, D.C.
Day-long track on Libraries & OER www.openedconference.org
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Libraries & OER Forum
http://www.sparc.arl.org/resource/sparc-libraries-oer-forum
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Be part of the solution
www.sparc.arl.org/membership
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Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis Through OER
Nicole Allen ([email protected])
Director of Open Education, SPARC
NERCOMP | September 22, 2014
Except where otherwise noted…