Recommendations for planning a successful OER project.

1. OPEN EDUCATION
leadership summit
2014
Welcome
Kim Thanos, kim.thanos@lumenlearning.com
David Wiley, david.wiley@lumenlearning.com

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Seed, inform and create ac>on
that improves student success.

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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.
Open educa>onal resources include full courses, course
materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests,
soFware, and any other tools, materials, or techniques
used to support access to knowledge.
William and Flora HewleJ Founda>on

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5Rs: The Powerful Rights of Open
• Make, own, and control your own copy of
the content Retain
• Use the content in its unaltered form
Reuse
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter
the content Revise
• Combine the original or revised content
with other OER to create something new Remix
• Share your copies of the original content,
revisions, or remixes with others Redistribute
Revise

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A Problem Worth Solving
• Costs escalate unchecked
• No concomitant increase in quality
• Impact on student…
§ Learning
§ Access
§ Success
§ Persistence
§ Comple>on
• Impact on faculty…
§ Control
§ Effec>veness
§ Professionalism

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There is a direct rela>onship between
textbook costs and student success
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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 cost
23% regularly go without
textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a course
due to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a
course due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

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Curriculum
Textbook adop>on
models
Economic incen>ves Policy
Ins>tu>onal funding
models
Ins>tu>onal
contracts
Faculty habits
Publisher-­‐owned
assessment processes
Student fee structures
Faculty support
materials
Financial aid processes
Vendor economic models
Faculty overload Adjunct development
Iner>a

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leadership summit
2014
Lesson 1
Systemic change is required

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Source: Tidewater Community College Z degree project team

13. OPEN EDUCATION
leadership summit
2014
Lesson 2
An ins>tu>onal champion is vital

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Faculty Approaches
BUILD ADAPT ADOPT
• Develop new OER
• Aggregate high-­‐
quality materials
• Create tools and
systems
• Create media
• Share or publish
Similar in scope to
wri>ng a new textbook
with collaborators.
• Iden>fy high-­‐quality
course or resource
• Create significant
revision
• Remix, aggregate
• Share or publish
Similar in scope to
moving from tradi>onal
to fully online delivery.
• Review open course
• Refine for teaching
approach
• Align with syllabus
• Assign and reference
Similar in scope to using
a new textbook or a
major new edi>on.

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leadership summit
2014
Lesson 3
Faculty require diverse
approaches and supports

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Source: Tidewater Community College Z degree project team

17. OPEN EDUCATION
leadership summit
2014
Lesson 4
The community must own the
connec>on

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Cau>ons (perhaps consider not)
• Building the Taj Mahal
• Replica>ng Quill (or Linda or Jason or)
• Assuming magic
• Adop>ng another ins>tu>on’s goals
• Crea>ng a hand-­‐craFed OER project

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Agenda
• Ins>tu>onal Policy – Daniel and Julie, Kent
(mezzanine)
• Faculty support and incen>ves – Marty and
Ronda (here back of room)
• Library engagement and roles – Marilyn and
David Lippman (here front of room)
• Economic models – Jason and Nate, 227