21. Open
1. Free and unfettered access
2. Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions
22. • Make and own a copyRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 5Rs
27. A Multi-Institutional Study of the
Impact of Open Textbook Adoption
on the Learning Outcomes of Post-
secondary Students
Fischer, Hilton, Robinson, and Wiley
Journal of Computing in
Higher Education (2015)
31. 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)
32. OER Degrees
When all courses adopt OER so a
student can graduate without ever
being asked to buy a textbook
33. Over 50 US colleges have
launched OER Degree programs
34.
35. Improving Course Throughput Rates
and Open Educational Resources:
Results from the Z Degree Program
at Tidewater Community College
Hilton, Fischer, Wiley, and Williams
Accepted International Review
of Research in Open and
Distance Learning
44. 120,000,000 postsecondary students worldwide
spend 14,000,000,000 hours doing homework
every year
If faculty spend 5 minutes grading for every hour
students spend on homework, that’s 1.2B hours
every year
49. OER give us permission to fully
leverage ICT in education to:
1. Improve affordability,
2. Improve student success,
3. Invigorate pedagogy, and
4. Impact at scale