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And the textbook is … free?Intro to Open Educational Resources
Barbara Illowsky, PhD
De Anza College
@DrBSI
OEConsortium Educator ACE Award, 2013
April 29, 2015
Session Outcomes
• At the end of this session, participants
should be able to:
– Identify what OER are
– Explain OER benefits for students and faculty
– Search for OER for your courses
– Be totally jazzed to incorporate OER into your
courses
Today’s topics
• OER – definition & purposes
• Locating high quality OER
• Concerns:
Articulation, Quality, Workload,
Administrative pressure, Search
• Online Ed Initiative – incorporation of
OER & basic skills
Source http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368
Page 6 GAO-13-368 College Textbooks
course materials may also be limited given their uniqueness to a particular course on a particular campus.
In 2005, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we reported that new college textbook prices had risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the course of nearly two decades, increasing at an average of 6 percent per year and following close behind increases in tuition and fees.8
Figure 1: Estimated Increases in New College Textbook Prices, College Tuition and Fees, and Overall Consumer Price Inflation, 2002 to 2012
More recent data show that textbook prices continued to rise from
2002 to 2012 at an average of 6 percent per year, while tuition and fees increased at an average of 7 percent and overall prices increased at an average of 2 percent per year. As reflected in figure 1 below, new textbook prices increased by a total of 82 percent over this time period, while tuition and fees increased by 89 percent and overall consumer prices grew by 28 percent.
8These price increases occurred from December 1986 to December 2004. See GAO-05-806.
Pricing and Spending
Student View
CCC expenses ≈ $18,005
• Tuition & fees ≈ $1220/year
• Room & board ≈ $10,962 (living on own)
• Textbooks & supplies ≈ $1665/year
• Other expenses ≈ $4158/year
Please Note: The estimates above apply to full-
time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking
undergraduate students only.
http://testsite.cccco.edu/npc/749/npcalc.htm
Think about:
• How did you choose your textbook?
• Is the textbook you use PERFECT?
• Do you supplement the publisher
materials at all?
• WHY do you supplement the textbook?
Textbooks you use
Pick one textbook for one course:
• Cost?
• Edition/revision cycle?
• Revisions necessary?
Check:
• http://www.wlac.edu/Bookstore/index.aspx
• Surprised?
Comparison
OpenStax College: free
Used at over 60 colleges;
transfers to CSU & UChttp://openstaxcollege.org
Math 227
Buy new: $181.90
Rent new: $127.35
Buy used: $42.45
Savings
over 7 years
One course, one OER text, one college*:
Estimated student savings of
≈ $2,500,000+
• Elementary Statistics using Collaborative Statistics at De Anza College
since 2008-09 academic year
• Elementary Statistics using Introductory Statistics at De Anza College
since January 2014
www.hewlett.org
Updated: 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.
A Global Perspective:
Educators worldwide are developing a vast
pool of educational resources on the Internet,
open and free for all to use. These educators
are creating a world where each and every
person on earth can access and contribute to
the sum of all human knowledge.
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/
The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of
higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to
advancing open education and its impact on global education.
http://www.oeconsortium.org/
Creative Commons www.creativecommons.org
• Minimum baseline rights usually allow
users to:
– Use the textbook without charge
– Copy the textbook, with appropriate credit to the
author
– Distribute the textbook non-commercially
• Many creators also grant rights to:
– Add, remove or alter content in the textbook
– Copy and distribute the textbook without
giving credit to the author/creator
– Use the textbook commercially
• Make and own copies Retain
• Use in a wide range of ways Reuse
• Adapt, modify, and improve Revise
• Combine two or more Remix
• Share with others Redistribute
The$5Rs$
Open License is key!
FREE + LEGAL RIGHTS:
Student Benefits
• Save $
• Multiple reading formats
• Embedded hyperlinks
• Accessibility
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Benefits of OER
☺ Lowers the costs of educational
materials for students
☺ Fosters pedagogical innovation
and relevance that minimizes
“teaching from the textbook”
☺ Gives faculty tools to gain control
over learning content and delivery
Benefits (cont.)
☺ Share and remix learning
materials for customized and
localized use ☺ Fast feedback loop on quality and
relevance of learning materials =>
continual improvement and rapid
development
Free access online
Free access offline (PDF)
Accessible via PC + web-enabled
handhelds
Print out part or all
Purchase a hard copy
Opportunities for Teachers
and Learners - Accessibility
Navigate and view
content with ease
Modify, mix and remix
content to meet individual
and classroom needs
Communicate with peers
around content
Join workgroups with peers
around content
Tailored content
Students and teachers
as co-creators of
knowledge
Enhanced engagement
and interaction with
materials
Increased student-
student, teacher-
teacher, and teacher-
student
communication
around curriculum
Opportunities for Teachers
and Learners - Use
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Return on Investment
Cost savings to students
Provides faculty with opportunities to share and remix learning content for customized and localized use
Supports low-cost crowd-sourcing of content translation to other languages
Fast feedback loop on quality and relevance of learning content
Supports continual and improvement and rapid development
Supports greater diversity of peer reviewers
How do I find “decent” OER?
Librarians are your
BEST FRIENDS!
• A few main repositories
• Colleagues – both in and out of discipline
• Conferences – both discipline and OER
• Listservs – oerconsortium.org; [email protected]
• Reviewed content
• Create content to supplement
https://www.skillscommons.org/
Repository for TAACCCT grants:
Career focused
http://openstaxcollege.org/
• Algebra
• Algebra & Trig
• Anatomy &
Physiology
• Biology
• Concepts in Biol.
• Chemistry
• Economics
• Micro-
Economics
• Macro-
Economics
• Physics
• Pre-calculus
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Statistics
• U.S. History
http://openstaxcollege.org/
Currently used in AT LEAST:
• 39 CCC
• 11 CSU
• 2 UC
• https://youtu.be/-AdiosVtq84
http://www.coolfored.org/
The three State of
California Higher
Education Systems are
working together to
provide you easy access
to quality FREE and
OPEN eTextbooks that
everyone and anyone can
use for teaching and
learning.
http://oerconsortium.org/ & http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources &
College Open Textbooks
• Repository of reviewed OER
• Links to other repositories
What if you can’t find full
replacement materials?
• LVN faculty in C6
• Adopt most
• Adopt some & supplement
• Create all
Why should we donate time to
find and/or write OER?
• Write articles
• Attend conferences
• Take classes
• Join committees
• Make presentations
• New prep for classes
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Increased student learning!
Lower educational costs!
Happy students!
Happy faculty!
Results
Resources• Open Education Consortium
http://www.oeconsortium.org/
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.sparc.arl.org/
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (lower division)http://oerconsortium.org
• http://codlrc.org/OA/texts
Proposal for increasing access and success through online instruction funded through the Governor’s request
$56.9 million over 55 months, starting December 2013
Sponsored by Foothill-De Anza CCD in partnership with Butte College
OEI: Online Edhttp://www.ccconlineed.org/
Steering Committee Work Groups
Professional Development
Consortium
Student Services
Common Course Management System
Academic Affairs
Basic Skills
Basic Skills Support
In OEI transfer courses
Pre-assessment support in CAI
Finding basic skills support
Open Educational Resources – aim is to find and use these as much as possible
Homegrown modules
Low cost licensing, if budget allows for it
Handbook with URLs to be posted in May
How do YOU join the parties?
Thank you!