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Open Educational Resources: in 10 min…
Cable GreeneLearning Director
http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen
Yes… We Really are Networked… seamless connection of
people, resources & knowledge
digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for
collaboration outsourcing Anyone notice our
global economy?
"According to an IBM study, by 2010, the amount of digital information in the world will double every 11 hours."
And we can makeall of our “digital stuff”available toall people…and most of itwill get used...by someone.
“Long Tail” of Publishing
long tail
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HarryPotter
Hyper-geometricpartial differentialequations
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart
We All Get to Participate
My Point?
A Digital, Networked World Changes the Rules
of the Game
Definition of OER
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.
The Old Economics
Print, warehouse, and ship a new book for every student
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2780164461/
The New Economics
Upload one copy, and everyone uses it simultaneously
http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/
Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free”
software
textbooks
music
Textbook 2.0modular
authored by community
continuously updated
personalized on assembly
never out-of-print
published on demand
low costex: 600-page textbook for $32, not $132
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
The College Board reported that for the 2007 through 2008 academic years each student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies…
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
The gross margin on new college textbooks is currently 22.7 percent according to the National Association of College Stores.
http://www.nacs.org/public/research/margins.asp
May, 2007: Dept of Ed.
http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf
Community College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources
Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks
in community college courses
cccoer.wordpress.com
Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project Goal
Identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open
Textbooks for community college students
Reduce the cost of
textbooks!
Comparison of Statistics Textbooks
Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP
Downloadable version:
$77.50
Downloadable & online versions:
FREE
Printed bound version:
$141.95 new
$110.25 used
Printed bound version:
$31.98 new
Click the Green Check if your college teaches
“Introductory Statistics”
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General Physics
600 pages
New $179.00
Used
$125.00
Click the Green Check if your school teaches
“Introductory Physics”
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Click the Green Check if your school teaches Elementary Algebra
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Do you want to go through the rest of your general
education courses?
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Open Textbook Adoption
Locate open textbooks for consideration
Evaluate each textbook for selection
Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook
Disseminate in print and digital formats
http://emharrington.com/rex/images/adoptadog/Adopt_Me.jpg
Locate Open Textbooksfor Consideration
MERLOT
Connexions
Wikibooks
OER Commons
Global Text Project
http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg
Evaluate Each Textbook Quality Accessibility Cultural relevance Currency Authority of Source Reading level Depth and scope Quality and
Accuracy Articulation
Customize, Remix, and Organize
Disseminate Open Textbooks Digital formats
Printed format
Campus bookstore
Campus print-shop services
Proprietary services
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Why so urgent?
Consider One High Enrollment Course: English Composition I 37,226 enrollments / year X $100 textbook = $3.7 Million + (cost to students)
What if we looked at 100, 200, 300 high enrollment courses?
http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg
Are there really Open Educational Resources on the
web?
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“Lenses” @ Rice Connexions
social software for quality control
cnx.org/lenses/johnDoe
univ.edu/cnxIEEE.org/cnx
What Happens if weDon’t Change?
Google, Amazo
n, Apple, O
pen Sourc
e,
Open Content, O
pen Textbooks…
Higher EducationFu
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Time
Harder to catch-up …
Or even understand.
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How is the fiscal healthof your local newspaper?
So…. People and content are connected globally Digital, online content is growing exponentially Digital Stuff we produce is used by someone Someone else can host our IT, so we can focus People and Colleges are sharing their content Everyone can participate New models are emerging that leverage these trends –
and they will be our direct competition
What are the possibilities? What will students expect from our Colleges?
Think Big Crazy Ideas….
We could share all of our instructional digital resources including: courses, textbooks and library resources with the world… and, more important, use global digital materials.
We could design courses that enable and encourage students to contribute, change, remix course content.
http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu
Dr. Cable GreeneLearning [email protected]
(360) 704-4334
Special thanks to: David Wiley (BYU) and Richard Baraniuk (Rice)