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Open Education: The Business and Policy Case for OER

April 18, 2013

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Open Education: The Business and Policy Case for OER

April 18, 2013

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Open Education: The Business and Policy Case for OER

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Open Education: The Business and Policy

Case for OER

Cable Green

Director of Global

Learning, Creative

Commons

Ellen Wagner

Executive Director,

WCET

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Open Education: The Business and

Policy Case for OER

Dr. Cable Green Director of Global Learning

cable@creativecommons.org @cgreen

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Children Reading Pratham Books and Akshara By Ryan Lobo http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/3291617463

“Nearly one-third of the world’s population (29.3%) is under 15. Today there are 158 million people enrolled in tertiary education1. Projections suggest that that participation will peak at 263 million2 in 2025. Accommodating the additional 105 million students would require more than four major universities (30,000 students) to open every week for the next fifteen years.”

1 ISCED levels 5 and 6 UNESCO Institute of Statistics figures 2 British Council and IDP Australia projections

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A simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to your creative work.

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Step 1: Choose Conditions

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

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Step 2: Receive a License

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most free

least free

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Over 500 million items

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Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of the Internet – universal access to research, education, and full participation in culture, driving a new era of development, growth, and productivity.

Develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

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Over 77,000 contributors

working on over 22 million

articles in 285 languages.

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175+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr

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Higher Ed

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K-12

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

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OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by

others.

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Search and Discovery

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Translations and Accessibility

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Customization and Affordability

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What is the Business / Policy Case for OER?

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Rivalrous vs. Non-Rivalrous Resources

vs.

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Cost of “Copy”

For one 250 page book:

• Copy by hand - $1,000

• Copy by print on demand - $4.90

• Copy by computer - $0.00084 CC BY: David Wiley, BYU

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Cost of “Distribute”

For one 250 page book:

• Distribute by mail - $5.20

• $0 with print-on-demand (2000+ copies)

• Distribute by internet - $0.00072

CC BY: David Wiley, BYU

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Copy and Distribute are “Free”

This changes everything.

CC BY: David Wiley, BYU

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Movies, TV Shows, Songs, and Textbooks

Movies and TV Shows:

• Amazon Prime – $6.59/month ($79/year) for access to 10,000 movies and TV shows.

• Netflix – $7.99/month for access to 20,000 movies and TV shows.

• Hulu Plus – $7.99/month for access to 45,000 movies and TV shows.

CC BY: David Wiley: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2348

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Movies, TV Shows, Songs, and Textbooks

Music:

• Spotify – $9.99/month for access to 15 million songs

• Rhapsody – $14.99/month for access to 14 million songs

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When the Marginal Cost of Sharing is $0… • Educators have an ethical obligation to share:

• Governments need to get maximum ROI by requiring publicly funded resources be openly licensed resources.

• Governments and educators need openly licensed content: (a) so you can revise and remix (b) buying and maintaining is cheaper than leasing (w/time bombs).

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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

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$60 trillion x 5% = $ 3 trillion

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Partner with Legislators Who Care About

A. Efficient use of national / state tax dollars;

B. Saving students money; increasing access to publicly funded research

and data;

C. Increasing access to education.

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CC-BY licensed textbooks

for 90 university courses

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$500 million - Wave 2 ($2 billion over four years)

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Publicly funded resources should be openly licensed resources.

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Why is “Open” Important?

Cooperate and share = We all Win

Faculty have new choices when building learning spaces.

…the more eyes on a problem, the greater chance for a solution.

Affordability: students can’t afford textbooks.

Self-interest: good things happen when I share.

It’s a social justice issue: everyone should have the right to access digital knowledge.

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Building Effective Teams and Shifting

the Culture to Open as Default.

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http://techplan.sbctc.edu

“We will cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”

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But using open educational resources – and contributing to them –

requires significant change in the culture of higher education. It

requires thinking about content as a common resource that raises all

boats when shared. (p.11)

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English Composition I 55,000+ enrollments / year x $175 textbook = $9.6+ Million every year

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English Composition I 55,000+ enrollments / year x $175 textbook = $9.6+ Million every year

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Does it make any sense WA State and K-12 Districts together spend $130M/year on textbooks and the results are:

• Books are (on average) 7-10 years out of date. • Paper only / no digital versions. • Students can’t write / highlight in books. • Students can’t keep books at end of year. • All rights reserved… teachers can’t update.

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U.S. House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012 Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill

SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act for the Department of Labor may be used to develop new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in carrying out education or career job training grant programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies, after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing in the marketplace or under development for students who require them to participate in such education or career job training grant programs.

http://appropriations.house.gov/UploadedFiles/FY_2012_Final_LHHSE.pdf

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U.S. House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012 Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill

SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act for the Department of Labor may be used to develop new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in carrying out education or career job training grant programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies, after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing in the marketplace or under development for students who require them to participate in such education or career job training grant programs.

http://appropriations.house.gov/UploadedFiles/FY_2012_Final_LHHSE.pdf

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H.R. 3699

"No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that -- (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work."

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H.R. 3699

"No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that -- (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work."

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But even better, the bill sponsor said:

"As the costs of publishing continue to be driven down by new technology, we will continue to see a growth in open access publishers.

This new and innovative model appears to be the wave of the future. The transition must be collaborative, and must respect copyright law and the principles of open access.

The American people deserve to have access to research for which they have paid. http://maloney.house.gov/press-release/issa-maloney-statement-research-works-act

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deserve to have access to research for which

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Efficient use of public funds to increase student success and access to quality educational materials.

Everything else (including all existing business models) is secondary.

Only ONE thing Matters:

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The opposite of open isn’t “closed”…

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the opposite of open is “broken”. Attribution: John Wilbanks

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Dr. Cable Green Director of Global Learning

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