Talk for Open Access Week, Oct 19 , 2015

1. srutter@hawaii.edu
Open Educational Resources & Open Access
Sara Rutter | OER Librarian
Outreach College
University of Hawaii Manoa

2. Words associated with OER & OA
Educational Web Create
Shared Free Revisable Reusable
Open Social Justice
Affordability

3. OER is...
"The open provision of educational resources,
enabled by information and communication
technologies, for consultation, use and
adaptation by a community of users for non-
commercial purposes." UNESCO, 2002

4. OER is...
"The idea behind Open Educational Resources
(OER) is simple but powerful—educational
materials made freely and legally available on the
Internet for anyone to reuse, revise, remix and
redistribute." William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2013

5. David Wiley: Defining the "Open" in Open Content
The term "open content" describes any
copyrightable work ... that is licensed in a manner
that provides users with free and perpetual
permission to engage in the 5R activities.

6. 5 R Activities
Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the
content
Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the
content itself
Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content
with other open content to create something new
Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original
content, your revisions, or your remixes with others

7. Rights granted in Creative Commons Licensing

8. Students struggle to complete degrees

9. uh oh!

11. Student Public Interest Research Groups
--65% of students have decided against
purchasing or renting a required textbook
--94% of these students believed this choice
would hurt their grade

12. Financing a college education
American College Health Association (2014),
finances are the second-largest stressor for
students after academics—more than a third of
students described finances as “traumatic” or
“very difficult” to handle.

13. Financing a college education
About one in four first-year students and one in
three seniors frequently did not purchase required
academic materials due to their cost, and a third of
students believed that financial concerns interfered
with their academic performance.
NSSE Annual Report 2012

14. OER implementation in higher education

16. OER at the University of Hawaii
❏ Honolulu Community College
❏ Leeward Community College
❏ Kapiolani Community College
❏ UH Manoa
Outreach College
UH Manoa Library
oer.hawaii.edu

17. Is it worth the effort?
Yes! Committing to OA and OER
--Students have access to required/needed
materials on the first day of class
--Instructors can tailor the materials to their
students and to their instructional needs
--An opportunity to redesign courses for today’s
learners.

18. Recommendations
-Start applying Creative Commons licensing and
practice licensing your creative works.
-Add your course materials to the UH OER
Repository oer.hawaii.edu/admin
-Check out the OER Guides,
guides.oer.hawaii.edu

19. Attribution
"Open Content" by David Wiley is licensed under CC BY 4.0
"National Survey of Student Engagement Annual Results 2012" by Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research
"ACHA National College Health Assessment Spring 2014" by American College Health Association
"How College Students Battled Textbook Publishers To A Draw, In 3 Graphs" by David Kestnebaum
Ethan Senack, Open Textbooks: the billion dollar solution Student PIRGS is licensed under CC BY 4.0
The era of the textbook cartel and $300 textbooks is ending, as the ‘college textbook bubble’ shows signs of deflating" by Mark J. Perry,
American Enterprise Institute. (Carpe Diem)
Images
"Delivery-Scooter" by Luis Prado, Noun Project is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / A derivative from the original work
"Drowning" by OCHA Visual Information Unit, Noun Project is in the Public Domain, CC0