The basics of OER

1. Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6554315179/

2. Open Everywhere
The What, Why, Who and How of
Finding & Adopting High Quality
Open Educational Resources
Presentation: adapted from Jean Runyon & James Glapa-Grossklage cc-by license
Photo: Derivative work of photo by Dominic Alves cc-by license
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/1127762669/

3. Welcome
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Dr. Donna Gaudet
Math Chair/Faculty Member
Scottsdale Community College
Dr. Lisa Young
Director – Center for Teaching/Learning
Scottsdale Community College

4. Setting the Stage
http://youtu.be/K5qwnAmMeeA

5. Test your OER Knowledge (1)
Rise in Textbook Costs
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6. By what % have Textbook prices risen
in the last 12 years?
51 – 60%
61 – 70%
71 – 80%
Over 80%

7. Source: Government Accountability Office, June 2013, College Textbooks Report

8. Impact on Students
• 65% choose NOT to buy
college textbook due to cost
• 94% report concern that
grades affected due to this
choice
• 48% take fewer classes or
different classes based on
cost of textbooks.
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“Fixing the Broken Textbook Market: How Students Respond to High Textbook Costs and Demand
Alternatives.” Student PIRGS, January 2014

9. Solution:
Open Educational Resources
• Online access to materials on first
day of class
• Free online, low-cost
print options
• Faculty can adapt for students
Licensed for re-use by
OpenSourceWay

10. Test your OER Knowledge (2)
What are OERs?
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11. OER’s are things you find on the web
 TRUE
FALSE

12. Open Educational Resources
(OER)
Hewlett Foundation
– “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
repurposing by others.”
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Source: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources

13. The 4R’s of OER
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This material is based on original writing by David Wiley, which was published freely under a Creative Commons
Attribution license at: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1123

14. Reuse
Depictions of individual species of gastropods – referenced on over 7000 Wikimedia pages
Source: http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/23/reusing-revising-remixing-and-redistributing-research/ cc-by

15. Revise
Revision of number of
frog species from 4 – 6
Source: http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/23/reusing-revising-remixing-and-redistributing-research/ cc-by

16. Revise
Part A has been converted
to SVG and from there
adapted to
Czech, German, Spanish, I
ndonesian, Polish, Portug
uese, Romanian, and
Ukrainian.
Source: http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/23/reusing-revising-remixing-and-redistributing-research/ cc-by

17. Remix
Source: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/news/2013/10/examples-of-oer-in-health-remixes-from-the-african-health-oer-network/ cc-by

18. Remix
Source: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/news/2013/10/examples-of-oer-in-health-remixes-from-the-african-health-oer-network/ cc-by

19. Redistribute
Photo by A. Diez Herrero - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/21572939@N03

20. OERs Include:
• “Full courses
• Course Materials
• Modules
• Textbooks
• Streaming Videos
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials or techniques used to
support access to knowledge.”
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Source: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources

21. Characteristics of OER
• Digital
– Easily modified
– free distribution
• Open License
– Re-usable & Customizable
• Low cost
– Lowers barriers to education
Labeled for reuse by MrKCoolsPhotostream

22. Test your OER Knowledge (3)
OER Quality
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23. Publisher Material is Higher Quality
Than OER
 TRUE
FALSE

24. OER & Quality
• Copyright status does not guarantee
quality
• There are good/bad OER and good/bad
publisher copyright materials
• Interested parties should verify quality of
adopted resources
• OERs can be as accurate or more (Nature)
• Pretty does not mean quality
• Only quality metric that counts is student
learning
This material is based on original writing by David Wiley, which was published freely under a Creative Commons
Attribution license at: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2947
Image: Mark A. Philbrick – CC BY

25. http://www.sdsubookstore.com/Bookstore/Textbooks/PricingPolicy/WheretheNewT
extbookDollarGoes/tabid/143/Default.aspx

26. Test your OER Knowledge (4)
Reasons for using OER
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27. Why do Faculty use OER?
 The huge royalties and kickbacks they receive
for their work including name recognition and
fame
A passion to make a financial difference in the
lives of their students and potentially impact
student success

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It Starts with Lowering Student Costs

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Lowering Student Costs

30. But…get ready for the OTHER benefits
• Customizable content
• Error correction “just in time”
• Multiple views
• Multiple sources
• Collaboration
• Continuous improvement

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