oer talk @ cu boulder
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Tackling the Textbook Crisis The Role of Open Educational Resources and
Affordable Course Materials
Guest Speaker: Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education for SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
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the status quo is broken
Consumer Prices 2006 – 2016U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Textbooks
Tuition & Fees
All Items
Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2016-17
Source: College Board
Books & Supplies = $1,200+
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“the straw that broke the camel’s back”
6 months
DONE READING?
GOOD
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Captive Market
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5 major publishers hold nearly 90% of the
market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch
Near-Monopoly
Data Source: NACS
Mixed MessagesStudent Spending on Textbooks
Prices
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2 in 3Students say they decided against buying a textbook
because the cost is too high
Source: Student PIRGs
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1 in 2Students say they have at some point taken fewer courses due
to the cost of textbooks
Source: Florida Virtual Campus
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<1 in 2Students purchase a current
edition of their textbook
Source: Book Industry Study Group
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students cannot learn from books they can’t afford
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we can do better
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what isopen?
OPEN EDUCATION
OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
Sound Bite:“OER are educational materials that are distributed at no cost with permission for everyone to freely use, share, and build upon the content.”
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OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
OPEN Free + Permissions
RetainReuseReviseRemixRedistribute
5Rs
technologyenables
copyright forbids
open licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org
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most open
All Rights Reserved©
most closed
OER5R permissionsretain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
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tour of theOER space
ocw.mit.edu
oercommons.org
openstax.org
openstax.org
openstax.org
openstax.org
plos.org
oli.cmu.edu
phet.colorado.edu
U.S. Department of Labor
skillscommons.org
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why does it matter?
openedgroup.org/review
academic research showing the impact of
OER vs. traditional materials
12 percentage point increase in student success measure
"This launched us in to a new direction, allowing us to be creative and unfettered in developing course materials that would meet the needs of the students at our respective colleges and that could also be…freely and widely distributed.”
Prof. Howard Miller Mercy College
tcc.edu/academics/degrees/textbook-free
Open resources in every single course,
reduces cost of degree 20%, increases
completion
“Thanks to the Z-Degree program I didn’t have to choose between continuing my education or getting braces for my daughter”
- Melissa Koch, TCC Student
$1.3 million in student savings by working with faculty to adopt free &
open resources
Award winning statistics text
I wanted my students to gain hands on experience managing a project… So I asked my students to engage in a very large scale revise / remix project.” - @opencontent
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what you can do
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(1) when you can share, do share
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(2) change the default:consider OER
first, then other options
open.umn.edu
using OER in 1 course per year could save US students
$1.42 billion
Source: Student PIRGs
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(3) support faculty toadopt, adapt,
andcreate OER
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(4)use “open” toachieve yourmission
“…our goal at CU Boulder is to directly affect Colorado communities through collaborative research, innovation and entrepreneurship. Our faculty, staff and students work with the broader community to establish unique connections that have lasting outcomes—both across Colorado and around the world. ”
open isfree + 5Rs
open isa means
open isa process
open ischanging lives
Nicole Allennicole@sparcopen.org@txtbks | @sparc_nawww.sparcopen.org
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