Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

TJ Bliss, Ph.D.The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

@tjbliss

Open Educational Resources can help your students.

$2731 $1,133

Tuition and Fees Books & Supplies

Cost of Community College

Source: College Board, Trends in Higher Education Report, 2011https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/trends-2011-community-colleges-ed-enrollment-debt-brief.pdf

Source: Student PIRGs$112

66.6%of students

DID NOT PURCHASE REQUIRED MATERIALSbecause of textbook costs

Florida Virtual Campus - 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey

47.6%of students

TOOK FEWER COURSES because of textbook costs


20.7%of students

WITHDREW FROM A COURSEbecause of textbook costs


2.6The average number of textbooks

each student purchased BUT WAS NOT ASSIGNED TO USE


High textbook costs

Decrease student access Increase student drop rates

Decrease student success and learning


OER


Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,

videos, readings, exams


(1) Free and unfettered access, and(2) Free copyright permissions to

engage in the 5R activities

• Make and own copiesRetain• Use in a wide range of

waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and

improveRevise• Combine two or moreRemix• Share with othersRedistribut

e

The 5Rs

open > free

open = free + permissions

http://www.cool4ed.org/ and AB 798 (2015)

150 peer-reviewed open textbooks

http://www.cool4ed.org/

http://www.cool4ed.org/

$66M saved in 4 years

https://www.oerconsortium.org/

$2.2 BillionEVERY YEAR.

OER DEGREE Initiative

Open Educational Resources can help you.

Open Educational Practice

Effective use of OER

Murder, Madness, and Mayhem

Wiki Education Foundation

Real Assignments

Real Impact

6%of all science-related Wikipedia

articles wereEDITED BY STUDENTS

95%of Wikipedians are male

60%of student Wikipedians are

FEMALE

“In the past I only had the official adopted textbook to choose from. Now I have the whole world, using open courseware from people who are worldwide experts in the fields I teach. I’m finding incredibly creative and innovative approaches to concepts that I wouldn’t have come up with myself. That kind of freedom is amazing.” – Linda Williams

Thank You

@tjbliss