suny oer colloquium 2014

www.lumenlearning.com

Open Educational Resources and Student Success

SUNY Colloquium March 28, 2014

Kim ThanosLumen Learning Co-founder and CEO

Kaleidoscope Program [email protected]

In every high-enrollment course that Lumen Learning touches our

goal is to:

Reduce textbook cost by

90%

Increase student success by 10%

through the use of open educational resources and

learning analytics.

Open Course Framework

For each student learning outcome:

1. Complete set of open materials2. Summative assessments3. Formative assessments4. Supplemental and support resources

Student ratings of quality of open texts

Better quality

Same quality

Worse quality

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Number of Students

“It was very concise and aligned with exactly what we were working on in the class.”

“Having the textbook catered to us by our teacher was perfect.”

3%

56%

41%

Source: Bliss, Hilton, Wiley, Thanos (2012)

Student preference for Kaleidoscope courses

Prefer Kscope

Prefer traditional

No preference

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Number of Students

“I enjoy having online texts provided for me because I'm poor. I spend the money I have left after rent on school, so having free online texts provided for me benefits me very much.”

“GREAT WAY TO DO ONLINE CLASSES!!!!”

13%

13%

73%

Source: Bliss, Hilton, Wiley, Thanos (2012)

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Historical Success Kaleidoscope

Topics

What is open education? Philosophy and definitions

Open education and current realitiesThe opportunity before us

Education is Sharing

teachers with studentsstudents with teachers

Shared by David Wiley under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

can be given without being given away

Ideas are Non-rivalrous

Physical Expressions Are Not

to give a book, you must

give it away

When Expressions Are Digital

they also become non-rivalrous

CC licensed photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/62693815@N03/6277209256/

© Cancels the Possibilities

of digital media and the internet

InternetEnables

what to do?

CopyrightForbids

use copyright to enforce sharing

Makes It Easy to Share: 4Rs

• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse

• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the contentRevise

• Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something new

Remix

• Share copies of the original content, revisions or remixes with others

Redistribute


Shifting Faculty Engagement with OER

• REUSE – This is MY content• REVISE – This is a starting point for

improvement• REMIX – This is the best collection of

materials for each concept or outcome• REDISTRIBUTION – This exists in a

community of collaborators

Open LicensesCreative Commons

Obscurityis a far greater threat to

authors than

piracy .

Why ?

- Tim O’Reilly

Because in the end

the love you takeis equal to

the love you make.

Why ?

- John Lennon

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

(1)Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans, videos,

readings, exams

(2) Are free for anyone to access, and(3) Include free permission to engage

in the 4R activities: reuse, revise, remix, redistribute

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

Reality One: Textbook costs are a barrier to student

success

Shared by Kim Thanos under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

Community College Textbook Costs

Fall 2013

Intermediate Algebra at xxx Community College

$590,186

Top 10 Courses at xxx Community College

$4,669,152

Developmental Math in State’s Community Colleges

$15,817,500

There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

Measuring Cost and Quality

0%

20%

40%

60%

65%54%

Mercy College: Student Success

Students Earning a C or Bet-ter

$-

$40.00

$80.00

$120.00

$160.00

$5.00

$170.00

Mercy College: CostDollars per student per

course

The Vision

100% of students have

free, digital access to all materials on day 1

Improve student success using OER-based courses that increase affordability, broaden access, and apply continuous quality improvement to course design

Reality Two: Content is a Commodity

Who wrote the opera, “Lady MacBeth of

Mtsensk” and why does it matter?

$100’s of millions of dollars invested by private foundations

Billions of dollars invested by the U.S. government

Pale in comparison to personal investments by teachers and experts who care

Reality Three: Digital Favors Scale


Blockbuster

Local Newspaper

Tower Records

Borders

Netflix

Huffington Post

iTunes

Amazon

Reality Four: In Ecosystems, Diversity = Sustainability


Significant Market Correction


Faculty Approaches

BUILD ADAPT ADOPT

• Develop new materials

• Aggregate materials from high-quality OER

• Create tools and systems

• Create media• Share or publish

Similar in scope to writing a new textbook with many collaborators.

• Identify high-quality course or resource

• Create significant revision

• Remix, aggregate• Share or publish

Similar in scope to moving from traditional to fully online delivery.

• Review open course• Refine for teaching

approach• Align with syllabus• Assign and reference

Similar in scope to using a new textbook or a major new edition.


The True Opportunity

1. Eliminate the content paywall

2. Improve learning design

3. Turbocharge the commons


Eliminate the Content Paywall

100% of students have

free, digital access to all materials on day 1

Content is learning infrastructure.Fund sustaining activities (5 – 10%) through institutional budget or small material fee.


Improve Learning Design

Learning Outcomes

Learning Experiences

Assessment

Text

Video

Interactives

Graphics

Formative assessment

Examples and case studiesWriting prompts

Discussion

Experimentation

ExamsProjects

Assignments


Turbocharge the Commons

Textbooks

Homework platform


Turbocharge the Commons

Textbooks

Textbooks

Homework platform

Video supports

Hosting and feature enhancements


The True Opportunity

1. Eliminate the content paywall - Cost

2. Improve learning design - Quality

3. Turbocharge the commons - Access


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