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OER 101David Wiley, PhD@opencontent

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education

education =

education = sharing

sharing

what you know

sharing

feedback

sharing

encouragement

sharing

passion

sharing

yourself

“internet”

Handwriting Printing Press Internet

Copying a book

$1000s per copy

$1s per copy $0.0001s per copy

Distributing a book

$1000s per copy


unprecedented capacity

sharing

education = sharing

unprecedented capacity

education

except, it doesn’t

CopyrightRegulates

Handwriting Printing Press Internet

Copying a book

$1000s per copy


Distributing a book

$1000s per copy


InternetEnables

CopyrightForbids

Open Educational Resources

Which “open”?

open ≈ free

free is assumed online

open = free + permissions

Open

1. Free and unfettered access

2. Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions

• Make and own a copyRetain• Use in a wide range of waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise• Combine two or moreRemix• Share with othersRedistribute

The 5Rs

retain is fundamental

retain is prerequisite

to revise and remix

• Make and own a copyRetain• Use in a wide range of waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise• Combine two or moreRemix• Share with othersRedistribute

The 5Rs

“Faux-pen”

1. Free (possibly gated) access

2. All rights reserved (or stronger)

“Closed Until Proven Open”

1. Online resources without an explicit copyright statement

2. Resources in library databases

traditionally © materials+ internet

openly licensed materials+ internet

InternetEnables

OERPermits

OER Adoption

Replacing whatever was previously in the “Required Materials” section of your syllabus with OER

High Impact OER Adoption

Adoption that:1. Improves affordability, 2. Improves student success, 3. Invigorates pedagogy, and4. Does it at scale

Textbook Pricing in Context

One Month Access to… Costs…Netflix – 20k Movies / TV Episodes $7.99 / monthSpotify – 15M Songs $9.99 / month

CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $19.67 / month

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

2012 Florida Virtual Campus student survey

A Multi-Institutional Study of the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on the Learning Outcomes of Post-secondary Students

Fischer, Hilton, Robinson, and Wiley

Journal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)

Participants

• 4909 treatment• 11,818 control• 50 different undergraduate courses • 130 teachers• 10 institutions

Method

Quasi-experimental design with:• Propensity score matched groups• Dependent variables: Completion; C or Better;

Credits Enrolled This Term; Credits Enrolled Next Term

• Independent variable: Textbook condition• 3 covariates: age, gender, and race

Credits TakenSemester OER Users Others Result

Fall 13.29 11.14 t (8101) = 27.81 p < .01

Winter 10.71 9.16 F(1, 6440) = 154.08, p <.01


Improving Course Throughput Rates and Open Educational Resources: Results from the Z Degree Program at Tidewater Community College

Hilton, Fischer, Wiley, and Williams

Accepted International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Course Throughput Rate

IRRODL (in press)

Drop Deadline

WithdrawDeadline

FinalGrade

Students

Commercial vs OER

2.3% | 1.8%

9.9% | 8.1%

68% | 74%

(Face to Face)

60% | 66%

Drop

Withdraw

C or Better

CTRIRRODL (in press)

Commercial vs OER

4.0% | 1.4%

13.7% | 13.1%

66% | 70%

(Online)

54% | 60%

Drop

Withdraw

C or Better

CTRIRRODL (in press)

openedgroup.org/review

impact.lumenlearning.com

Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function

Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir, and Zhao

Science (2013)

Study Design

Participants• Shoppers in a New Jersey mall• Sugarcane farmers in India

Test cognitive capacity during financial stress• Thinking through car repairs ($150 / $1500)• Before and after harvest

Results

• Considering a financial decision affects people's performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning tasks.

• Lower-income individuals performed poorly if the repairs were expensive but did fine if the cost was low.

• Sugarcane farmers performed the same tasks better after harvest than before.

1. Don’t stop at the swap

Take advantage of theadditional capabilities (5Rs)

2. Use outcomes as outline

Outcome Assessment Resources License1. Students will understand statistical test…

60 second explainer video

URL 1Video 1

CC BYCC BY

2. Students will analyze data…

Govt data analysis

URL 1URL 2

CC BYCC BY SA

3. … … … …

Create Alignment

3. Rethink your assessments

“What does open allow me to do?”

Disposable Assignments

Students hate doing themYou hate grading themHuge wasted opportunity

US undergraduates spend approximately 40 million hours

doing homework every year.

Renewable Assignments

Students see value in doing themYou see value in grading themThe work is valuable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFU3sAlPx4






Renewable Assignments

Are enabled by the open nature of OER

OER-based Degrees

When elective and required courses adopt OER so a student can graduate without ever being asked to buy a textbook

OER-based Degrees

In summary…

“Closed Until Proven Open”

1. Online resources without an explicit copyright statement

2. Resources in library databases

High Impact OER Adoption Can:

1. Improves affordability, 2. Improves student success, 3. Invigorates pedagogy, and4. Does it at scale

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