This document provides an introduction to open educational resources (OER) for faculty. It begins with a welcome message and sets the stage by discussing rising textbook costs, which have increased over 80% in the past 12 years. This creates barriers for many students, who often cannot afford textbooks. The document then introduces OER as a solution, defining them as teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for anyone to use and adapt. It discusses the benefits of OER for both students and faculty, including lower costs and greater customization. Various OER projects and initiatives are also highlighted. Overall, the document makes a case for adopting OER to lower costs for students and remove barriers to their education.
2. Welcome
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Dr. Donna Gaudet
• Math Chair/Faculty Member
Scottsdale Community College
• VP/Executive/Advisory Board
Member of Community College
Consortium for Open Educational
Resources
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8. Costs for a Full-Time Student for a Year
(30 credit hours)
Tuition
Textbooks$243
0
$120
0
(33%)
Maricopa Community Colleges
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Many students do not
buy textbooks & do not have
the book on the first day
10. 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
11. 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
12. Test your OER Knowledge (2)
What are OERs?
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14. 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
15. 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
16. Characteristics of OER
• Digital
– Easily modified
– free distribution
• Openly Licensed
– Re-usable & Customizable
• Low cost
– Lowers barriers to education
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17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
29. 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
31. OER vs. Publisher Materials Analogy
http://sexualhealthblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/generic-drugs-vs-branded-one/comment-page-1/
32. Test your OER Knowledge (4)
Reasons for using OER
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33. 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
36. 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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38. http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/Affordable%20College%20Textbook%20Act.pdf
The Affordable College Textbook Act
S. 1704 (Durbin-Franken)
H.R. 3538 (Hinojosa-Miller)
Sen. Al Franken (MN)
Sen. Dick Durbin (IL) Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (TX)
Rep. George Miller (CA)
• Creates a grant program to support pilot
programs at colleges and universities
• Ensures that materials created will be
freely and easily accessible to the public
• Requires entities who receive funds to
complete a report on the program
effectiveness
• Requires the Government Accountability
Office to provide an updated report on the
price trends of college textbooks
You can go to www.sparc.arl.org to help support it
40. About CCCOER…
• Started in July 2007
• Collaboration of CC’s, statewide initiatives,
educational organizations (AACC, League)
• Affiliate of OEC (Open Ed Consortium)
• Create awareness of OER in CC’s
• Help colleges adopt/adapt/create OER
• 240+ CC members
41. Members in CCCOER
Senators and Congressmen sponsoring the Affordable College
The National OER Scene
Some Notable OER
Projects
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44. 3400+ math tutorials
22,000 Subscribers
11.3 Million Total Views
3.3 years of video viewed in last 30 days
800+ videos closed captioned
45. 25 students x $100 x 5 sections x 2 semesters =
$25,000
20 faculty per college = 200 x $25,000 = $5,000,000
$0
$10,000
$20,000
$30,000
$40,000
$50,000
$60,000
PVCC
Lambert
Hill/Krause
McClelland
Miller
Douglass
Christiano
Dean
Golisch
Fall 2013 at PVCC
49. • Presentations
• Call for OER Grants
• Dialogue Days
• Department Meetings
• “Water Cooler” Discussions
• Promotional Items
• CTLs
• College Libraries
http://www.skmurphy.com/startup-stages/scaling-up-stage/
Creating OER Awareness and Increasing Adoption
50. MOOCs vs. OERs
MOOC – Massive Open
Online Course
OER – Open Educational
Resources
Free tuition Same tuition as other courses
at the college
Textbook may or may not be free Textbook is free or very
inexpensive
Huge enrollment (thousands) Same enrollment limit as other
courses at the college
Online Online, Hybrid, Face to Face
Very little faculty/student
interaction (Groundskeeper)
Significant faculty/student
interaction (Coach)
Less than 10% complete with
passing grade.
Similar success rates as comparable
non-OER courses.
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