OER Preconference at #disymposium2016

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textbookcost crisis

nicole allen SPARCExcept where otherwise noted...

the OER and

solving

Digital Initiatives Symposium | 4/27/16 | U San Diego


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Agenda

1:00 Introductions1:15 OER Overview2:00 Discussion2:30 Break2:45 Action plan overview3:00 Breakout3:30 Discussion


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higher ed is important


higher ed is expensive

@txtbks | sparcopen.orgSource: CNN Money


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State FundingTuition Revenue

US Public Higher Education Funding - $/Undergrad FTE

Data source: State Higher Education Officers AssociationSlide source: @dernst, adapted under CCBY


$28,950Average debt per borrower for graduating class of 2014

Source: TICAS


Cost Factors:Tuition and FeesRoom and BoardTransportationBooks and SuppliesOther Expenses

Cost Factors:

Books and Supplies

@txtbks | sparcopen.orgSource: GAO


Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2014-15

Source: College Board

Books & Supplies = $1,225


“the straw that broke the camel’s back”

@txtbks | sparcopen.orgSource: Student PIRGs







DONE READING?

GOOD


Market Failure


students are captives, not consumers


Market Failure

5 major publishers hold nearly 90% of the

market

Source: Turning the Page by James Koch


Market Failure

Source: NACS.org

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2 in 3Students say they decided against buying a textbook because the cost

is too high

Source: Student PIRGs


1 in 2Students say they have at some

point taken fewer courses due to the cost of textbooks

Source: Florida Virtual Campus


<1 in 2Students purchase a current

edition of their textbook

Source: Book Industry Study Group


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”









OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCESFree + Reuse Rights

• Retain• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute


open licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org


use © to enable free & open use


most open

least open

OER


how is OER created?

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@txtbks | sparcopen.orgopenstaxcollege.org

@txtbks | sparcopen.orgopenbookpublishers.org

@txtbks | sparcopen.orgplos.org

@txtbks | sparcopen.orgoli.cmu.edu

@txtbks | sparcopen.orgskillscommons.org


how is OER being used?


Open Textbook (Example)

• Free online

• Free PDF

• Free ePub

• Print $49.73

• Instructor can adapt and distribute

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@txtbks | sparcopen.orgpm4id.org


Supporting Adoption

Source: Lumen Learning


• Higher or equivalent grades• Higher average credit load• Higher or equivalent completion

rates


what can you do?


(1) Make sharing easy

@txtbks | sparcopen.orgocw.mit.edu


open licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org


Award winning statistics text


(2) Consider OERbefore

traditionalmaterials

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using OER in 1 course per year could save US students

$1.42 billion


(3) Support faculty toadopt, adapt,

andcreate OER




Libraries & OER ForumLibOER.org#LibOER


(4)Connect “open” toyour

institutionalmission

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use the internet to do what it was meant for

to benefit society


Nicole [email protected]@txtbks | @sparc_nawww.sparcopen.org