Overview of Open Educational Resources (NSCC Faculty Institute, 6/10/14

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Open Educational Resources

Nicole Allen (nicole@sparc.arl.org)Director of Open Education, SPARC

North Shore Community College | June 10, 2014

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SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of

academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.

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@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgMacroeconomics (5th Edition) by Stephen D. Williamson

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Source http://www.coursesmart.com/macroeconomics-fifth-edition/stephen-d-williamson/dp/9780132992787

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FINISHED READING?

GOOD

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Source http://www.studentpirgs.org/sites/student/files/reports/A-Cover-To-Cover-Solution_4.pdf

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgSource http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368

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$1,207Average student budget for books

and supplies for the 2013-2014 academic year

Source http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2013-14

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1 in 2Students say they have at

some point taken fewer courses due to the cost of

textbooks

http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf

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65% of students report skipping a required textbook

because of the high price

Source http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/sp/fixing-broken-textbook-market

The vast majority of these students thought it could hurt their grades

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You can’t learn from materials you can’t afford

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“Broken Economics”

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Then vs. NowAnalog Digital

Tethered MobileConcealing SharingIsolated ConnectedGeneric Personal

Consuming CreatingClosed Open

Adapted from slides by David Wiley available under CC BY at http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent

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“For the first time in humanhistory we have the tools toenable everyone to attain allthe education they desire”

— Wiley, Green & Soareshttp://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2012/02/pdf/open_education_resources.pdf

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How do we enable everything the digital environment makes

possible?

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OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES

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“OER are textbooks and other academic materials that are published online for everyone to use, adapt and share freely”

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1. Free(no cost, no barriers)

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2. Open(right to fully use)

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“All Rights Reserved” is like “Call Me Maybe”

Source http://www.soundmagonline.com/copyedit-your-song-titles-maybe-a-history-of-the-comma-in-no-1-pop-songs/ (used without permission under fair use)

You have to ask permission before using ©

material

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Open LicensingAmends the default terms of © to “Some Rights Reserved”

to allow free and open use

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(easy-to-use open licenses)www.creativecommons.org

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Open Licenses• Permission to freely and openly use• In advance• To all users (the public)• Forever• With attribution to the author

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The “5R’s” of OpennessAll users have the right to:• Retain• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute

…with attribution as specified

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Barriers for OER• Awareness of OER as an option• Discovery of appropriate OER• Evaluating the quality of OER• Logistics of adopting OER• Sustainable publishing of OER

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Two parts:1. Creating OER2. Adopting OER

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OER Creation Models

• Business models• Government funding• Institution funding• Author incentives• Open licensing of existing materials

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OER Adoption Models

• Individual seek-and-find• Professional development• Librarian support• Incentives• Search tools• Awareness campaigns

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OpenCourseWare

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• Online platform where anyone can post materials

• Tools to assemble, edit, and share materials

• Acess in html, pdf, epub, hardcopy

• CCBY license

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Open Publishing

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• 20 open textbooks for high enrollment courses

• Comparable quality, features to traditional texts

• Sustainability through commercial partners

• Authors are compensated for their work

• $2.3 million student savings

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Open Textbook (Example)

• Free online

• Free PDF

• Free ePub

• Print $49.73

• Instructor can adapt and distribute

http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics

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http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/feb/osu-open-textbook-initiative-aims-reduce-student-costs-enhance- learning

• OSU Library, Press, and Extended Campus

• Pilot to publish 4 books in 2014-2015

• Authors receive $5-15K budget transfer and royalties on print sales

• Books published free digitally under open license

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Public Funding

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• 81 highest enrollment courses

• Materials cost $30 or less per course

• New materials CCBY• State invested

$750,000• $5.5M savings

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Institutional Initiatives

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Supporting Adoption

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http://www.lumenlearning.org

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Supporting Adoption

Adapted from slides by David Wiley available under CC BY at http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent

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• Offers mini grants to faculty to switch to OER/affordable materials

• Workshops and consultation sessions for faculty

• 30+ faculty participants• $1,000,000 student savings

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• Goal to save students $250K in 2 years

• Students voted to use fees to hire full time OER librarian to coordinate

• Hit goal within first year

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What course content do you use? Can you include OER?

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What kind of educational content do you produce?

Can it be open?

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Advancing our systems for sharing information toward openness

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Open Educational Resources

Nicole Allen (nicole@sparc.arl.org)Director of Open Education, SPARC

North Shore Community College | June 10, 2014

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