Opening T&L with OER

Opening Teaching & Learning with Open Educational ResourcesDr. Richard Sebastian, Director, OER Degree InitiativeAchieving the Dream

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 2Unless otherwise noted, this presentation is licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted from OER 101 presentation by David Wiley.

Slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/oer_degree

Resources available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xaf8G_cfLASRBwjJaIjV4jgQET44DJ2m9YrWlV7wxaw/edit?usp=sharing

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 3

What does Motörhead’s Lemmy Killmeister have to do with the Periodic Table of the Elements?




Introduction to open educational resources, Creative Commons licensing, and the 5Rs

Why adopt OER? How high impact OER adoption can invigorate

teaching and learning through open pedagogy Open pedagogy in practice: designing a

renewable assignment

Overview



Activity: Edit a Wikipedia articlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7yXx3YbcNI


IntroductionOpen Educational Resources


“Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”

Open Educational Resources


Creative Commons


OER Degree Initiative Licensing Guidelines

1 Supplemental Only. Because these resources are traditionally copyrighted you cannot make copies of them and can only link to or embed them. Consequently, they can disappear at any time. Any topics covered in these resources must also be covered in other “green” or “yellow” resources in your course.2 Boutique Licenses. This means any license other than a Creative Commons license.3 Case-by-Case Approval. Talk to your mentor at Lumen Learning before using these resources.


Open Licensing Game

http://indstudy1.org/univ/355460515034/Flash/Lesson2/PracticeVersion.html


Activity: Create an openly licensed work

Create an original work that you would like to openly license and share publicly

Choose a Creative Commons license for this work at https://creativecommons.org/choose/

Apply the license to the chosen work

Upload to the web to share publicly


open = free + permissions



Free and unfettered accessPerpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions



The 5Rs


open ≈ free


free is assumed online


CopyrightForbids

InternetEnables


retain is fundamental


The 5Rs


openly licensed materials+ internet


OERPermits

OER Permits

InternetEnables


OER AdoptionReplacing whatever was previously in the “Required Materials” section of your course syllabus with OER


High Impact OER Adoption1. Improves affordability, 2. Improves student success, 3. Invigorates pedagogy, and4. Does it at scale


Improves Affordability




Textbook Pricing in Context


One Month Access to… Costs…Netflix – 20k Movies / TV Episodes

$7.99 / month

Spotify – 15M Songs $9.99 / month

CourseSmart -- 1 Biology Textbook

$19.67 / month

Textbook Pricing in Context


Increases Student Success



There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due

to cost 35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook

cost23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost14% have dropped a

course due to textbook cost--2012 Florida Virtual Campus student

survey


Improving Course Throughput Rates and Open Educational Resources: Results from the Z-Degree Program at Tidewater Community College

Hilton, Fischer, Wiley, and WilliamsAccepted, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)


Course Throughput Rate

IRRODL (in press)

Drop Deadline

WithdrawDeadline

FinalGrade

Students


Commercial vs OER

2.3% | 1.8%

9.9% | 8.1%

68% | 74%

Face to Face

60% | 66%

Drop

Withdraw

C or Better

CTR IRRODL (in press)


Commercial vs OER

4.0% | 1.4%

13.7% | 13.1%

66% | 70%

(Online)

54% | 60%

Drop

Withdraw

C or Better

CTR IRRODL (in press)

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 37openedgroup.org/review

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 38impact.lumenlearning.com


Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function

Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir, and ZhaoScience (2013)


Study Design Participants

Shoppers in a New Jersey mallSugarcane farmers in India

Test cognitive capacity during financial stressThinking through car repairs ($150 / $1500)Before and after harvest


Results Considering a financial decision affects people's

performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning tasks.

Lower-income individuals performed poorly if the repairs were expensive but did fine if the cost was low.

Sugarcane farmers performed the same tasks better after harvest than before.


A Multi-Institutional Study of the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on the Learning Outcomes of Post-secondary Students--Fischer, Hilton, Robinson, and WileyJournal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)


Participants• 4909 treatment• 11,818 control• 50 different undergraduate courses • 130 teachers• 10 institutions


MethodQuasi-experimental design with:Propensity score matched groupsDependent variables: Completion; C or Better; Credits Enrolled This Term; Credits Enrolled Next TermIndependent variable: Textbook condition3 covariates: age, gender, and race


Journal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)


Credits Taken

Semester OER Users Others Result

Fall 13.29 11.14 t (8101) = 27.81 p < .01

Winter 10.71 9.16 F(1, 6440) = 154.08, p <.01

Journal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)


Invigorates Pedagogy



Don’t stop at the swap


1. Take advantage of theadditional capabilities (5Rs)




2. Use outcomes as outline


2. Use outcomes as outline

Outcome Assessment Resources License1. Students will understand statistical test…

60 second explainer video

URL 1

Video 12. Students will analyze data…

Govt data analysis

URL 1

URL 2

CC BY

3. … … … …


Project Plan Example

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uOCTqN7tVRJCxRWhjuwxztFMGN8VmAeixHjHAgn0Rkk/edit?usp=sharing


3. Rethink your assessments

“What does open allow me to do?”


Disposable Assignments Students hate doing them You hate grading them Huge wasted opportunity


US undergraduates spend approximately 40 million hours doing homework every year.


Renewable Assignments Students see value in doing them Faculty see value in grading them The work is valuable

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 59https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFU3sAlPx4

Blogs vs. Wikis


Murder, Madness, and Mayhem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem


Project Management for ID


Renewable Assignments…are enabled by the open nature of OER.


Activity: Design a renewable assignment

Divide into groups Share focus areas,

subject matter, content Group decides on an

content area and a specific course objective

Brainstorm ideas for creating a renewable assignment

Share ideas with group


Do this at scale

OER Degrees


OER-based Degrees

When elective and required courses adopt OER so a student can graduate without ever being asked to buy a textbook


OER-based Degrees


Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative Funded by The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Great Lakes Higher Education Commission, Speedwell, and Silent Hill


Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative Funding 38 community colleges to create

OER degrees over the next 31 months

Technical assistance: Lumen Learning Research evaluation: SRI Education &

rpkGROUP Community of practice: Community College

Consortium for OER (CCCOER)


In summary…



Free and unfettered accessPerpetual, irrevocable 5R

permissions


High Impact OER Adoption:1. Improves affordability, 2. Improves student success, 3. Invigorates pedagogy, and4. Does this all at scale


Thank you.Dr. Richard SebastianDirector, OER Degree Initiative Achieving the Dream

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