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Open Educational

Resources

Wanda Barker

Director, SREB Education Technology and

Multi-State Cooperative Programs

Overview

What is OER?

Why OER?

Creative Commons Licenses

OER – changing education

State Examples

Locate Resources

Policy Considerations

What is OER?

Public Domain

intellectual property rights expired

forfeited or expressly waived

not applicable

Released with Creative Commons License

Sliding scale for using, reusing, adapting, sharing

Can be any type of teaching material

CC By: Cable Green

OER Commons

Do the Math – Substitute One OER Book

Appx. Number FT/PT

College Students

Multiplied by

Average savings per book

Savings

17,500,000

x 128

2,240,000,000

U.S. Department of Education, 2017

How Is OER Changing Education?

Increases Equity – access for all

Provides access to up-to-date, relevant content

Provides ability to copy and distribute to anyone

Saves money – for students and schools

Allows repurposing of Financial Aid

Provides students access to resources from day one

Empowers faculty to customize free resources

How is OER Possible?

Creative Commons Licenses

CC By: Cable

Green, OER

Commons

CC By: Cable Green

OER Commons

The OER Five Rs

Re

tain

Reuse

Rem

ix

Revis

e

Re

dis

trib

ute

Who Uses These Resources?

K-12Community

and Technical Colleges

Universities

University of Maryland University College

Click to View University of Maryland University

College: Open Educational Resources Initiative

video (link to YouTube)

Technical College System of Georgia

Georgia Virtual Technical Connection

Just getting started

First course offerings:

• 13 of the 22 colleges adopted the first OER course

• Approximate student savings of over $640,000 in

textbook costs

• Expansion to more courses underway

University System of Georgia

Affordable Learning GeorgiaStudent Savings on Textbook Costs

Since funded inception FY 2014-2015, all ALG

programs have saved a total projected $31.8 million

dollars on textbook costs, affecting 259,509 students.

For more details:

http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/about/reports

Rounds 3-5: Satisfaction

Rounds 3-5: Changes in Learning

Outcomes

Rounds 3-5: Changes in Retention

North Carolina Department of Public

Instruction (K-12)

Legislation for transition from textbooks to digital resources Request for Proposals for Open Education Resource Service

• Vendor will provide curated OER materials

• Cloud service, integrate with Canvas and other LMSs

• Aligned with NC curriculum standards

• Scalable for 115 LEAs and 1.5 million students

• Include professional development services

• Use NC teachers in curation and alignment

Where Can I Find OER?

Merlot

Boundless

Saylor Academy

MIT OpenCourseWare

OpenStax

Open Textbook LibraryOER Commons

CK-12

What Subjects?

CK-12 Usage Map

What OER Policies do states need?

• Allow for OER adoption – and encourage it

• Recognize curricular innovation, contribution in

tenure review and performance evaluations

• Provide training on locating, editing, using OER

• Provide technical support

• For most federal grants, use Creative Commons

licenses for grant materials

For more information:

Wanda.Barker@sreb.org

http://www.sreb.org/educational-technology-cooperative

Questions?