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57 views The cost of college textbooks has grown to a point that virtually every campus is now seeking solutions. While many colleges and universities like UNCG have successfully reduced costs through stop-gap measures such as rental programs and textbook reserves, the greatest potential for permanently solving the problem lies in Open Educational Resources (OERs), which are academic materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, adapt, and share. Institutions across the country have begun to leverage OERs to reduce textbook costs, expand access to information, and enable faculty to better tailor materials to their courses. This talk will provide an overview of the OER movement to date, including how to identify OERs, how they are created, and research showing the impact on students. It will also help frame the opportunity for UNCG to advance OER right on campus.
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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...
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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
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Image © from http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/showbiz/heat-director-buddy-cop/
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
@txtbks | #OAweek2014www.sparc.arl.org
(3) Open Textbooks
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Captured 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
@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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@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
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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
@txtbks | #OAweek2014http://open.umn.edu
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• Catalog of open textbooks containing 100+
• Faculty reviews
• Runs workshops at campuses across the country
@txtbks | #OAweek2014http://open.umn.edu
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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
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source temple.edu
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source: ucla.edu
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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
@txtbks | #OAweek2014Source http://pm4id.org/
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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...
