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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s an OER?
1. The Achieving the Dream Leader College designation recognizes an institution’s impact in the effort to improve student success and eliminate achievement gaps nationwide.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s an OER?
Phillip Marcus Anaya
April 19, 2016
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It's a bird, it's a p[lane, it's an OER? by Phillip Anaya is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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6. Education is about Sharing
• Teachers share knowledge freely
• Students share
their understanding
• Teachers share
with each other.
Source: David Wiley, Why be Open, slideshare 2012
Image: Engineering Expo 10, licensed by
Westpoing CC-BY-NC-ND
8. T or F?
• Textbook prices have risen 82% in the last decade
TRUE but HIGHER
• OER = Public Domain
FALSE
• All open textbooks are peer-reviewed
FALSE (for now)
• MOOCs = OER
FALSE
• Publisher produced material is better than OER
FALSE
• OER courses will not be accepted for transfer
FALSE
9. Tuition and Fees
Undergraduate costs rose 42 percent at public
institutions 2001-2011
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76
12. Student Impact
• 48% take fewer classes
or different classes
• 65% choose to not buy
textbook
• 94% report concern that
grades affected
Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market, 2014
Survey of 2039 students at 156
campuses across 33 states
13. Barriers
Costs of enrollment and
fees
52%
Work pressures
60%
Costs of books and
supplies
75% "Do Not Enter sign (Mexico).svg" by Fry1989 is licensed under CC
BY-SA 3.0
Source: 5th Annual Student Survey of Online Classes Spring 2012 Report #271
14. OER are teaching, learning, and
research materials
that permit their free use
and re-purposing by others
Open Educational Resources (OER)
22. Giving Credit
• Best Practices for Attribution
TASL
Title
Author
Source – Link to work
License – Name + Link
Open Attribution Builder
http://www.openwa.org/attrib-builder/
26. This photo is licensed CC-BY-NC
• You are free to use, modify and distribute, except for
commercial use
• You must give attribution to Chris Stroup and Flikr
27.
28. This course is licensed CC-BY
•You are free to use, modify and distribute all or any part
of this course, including for commercial use
•You must give attribution to the University of Michigan
and cite the source
http://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/physics140/fall2007
36. Quality Assurance
OpenStax College and ASM Press are teaming up to produce
Microbiology, a new introductory-level textbook due for release in
spring 2016.
See more at: http://news.rice.edu/2015/06/02/openstax-college-asm-press-partner-on-
microbiology-textbook/#sthash.ki76JLzg.dpuf
37. What do faculty say?
Source: Opening the Curriculum: OER in US Higher Education, 2014,
Babson Survey Research Group
47. OER at Alamo Colleges
• Internal Survey of current OER usage
• External Support and Memberships
• Educate the faculty
• Shells for course in our LMS
• Ability to track courses for reporting
• Ability for students to search for courses
• Branding: AlamoOPEN
• Creation of an OER faculty award
• Inform the students
AlamoOpen No-Cost Textbook
48. Questions?
The Achieving the Dream Leader College designation recognizes an institution’s impact in the effort to improve student success and eliminate achievement gaps nationwide.
49. Ask about our
AlamoOPEN
User group
The Achieving the Dream Leader College designation recognizes an institution’s impact in the effort to improve student success and eliminate achievement gaps nationwide.
50. Thank You.
The Achieving the Dream Leader College designation recognizes an institution’s impact in the effort to improve student success and eliminate achievement gaps nationwide.