OER: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, Improving Efficacy (#UNTOA16)

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#UNTOA16 | 5/20/16 | University of North Texas


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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”




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


“Some of the e-book slump amounts to chickens coming home to roost for traditional publishers. They have been fighting to keep e-book prices high — to the point where they engaged in industry-wide collusion with Apple in an attempt to do so […] Is it really such a surprise that higher prices lead to people buying fewer e-books?”


“More students drop out of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow or fail to finish high school within four years than at any other school in the country, while companies tied to its founder have been paid millions.”


students can’t learn from materials they can’t afford


we can do better.


OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES


OPEN EDUCATIONRESOURCES










OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCESFree + Reuse Rights

• Retain• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute


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 licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org


most open

least open

OER


how is OER created?

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how is OER being used?

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Supporting Adoption

Source: Lumen Learning


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

rates


what can you do?


(1) Start with the lowhanging fruit



using OER in 1 course per year could save US students

$1.42 billion


… and remember all fruit falls eventually

(credit: Quill West)


(2) Encourage sharingby people whowant to share



Award winning statistics text


(3) Support faculty toadopt, adapt,

andcreate OER



@txtbks | sparcopen.orglumenlearning.com


Libraries & OER ForumLibOER.org#LibOER


(4)Make “open” your mission



use the internet to do what it was meant for

to benefit society


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