Putting the “Public” Back

in Public Higher Education

Open Education and the

Future of the University

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What is “Public” Education?

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At one of our USNH universities, only 9% of revenues come from the state

So really, what does it mean to be a public university system?

Here is the beginning of my answer to that question.

New Flows Emerge In Private Colleges

corporate driven competencies alternative: can the public pay itself for what it needs?

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Public Colleges Turn to Private Enterprise

will these partnerships save public universities?

(Editorial Guess: No.)

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Bottom Line

I am not a dean.

I am not an economist.

…so what can I contribute to the effort to revision and strengthen public

higher ed?

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I am a teacher and a scholar.

• I teach courses and work with students.

• I do research and serve my profession.

What does it mean to do this publicly?

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THE ATI KEYNOTE 2014

• Student textbooks cost about $1,200 per year.

• That’s equal to 11% of tuition at PSU.

• Students worry more about paying for books than they worry about paying for college.

• Textbook costs have risen 1,041% since 1977.

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Effects of Textbook Prices

• 60% of students report not purchasing a required textbook because of cost, and 23% regularly go without books due to cost

• 50% of students report taking fewer courses due to textbook costs

• 14% have dropped a course and 10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook costs

2012 Survey of 22,000 students, Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the

12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.

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Square 1: Openly-Licensed Content(Public Domain Lit Shouldn’t Cost $86)

Collaboratively Built: Alums, Incoming Students, Professor

Constantly Evolving:

Students & Teachers

Add, Improve,

Share

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Interactive and Public Annotation

An Open “Textbook”Can Be:

• Interactive• Collaborative• Dialogic• Dynamic• Empowering• Contributory• Current• Accessible• Multimedia• Public• (Free)

Open Education

• Open Educational Resources (OER)

• Open Pedagogy• Open Access to

research

Open Pedagogy

• Improves access to education.• Treats education as a learner-driven

process.• Stresses community and

collaboration over content.• Connects the university to the wider

public.

Access• Save money on

textbooks, ok • But what other

barriers exist to access?• Tuition/Living• Digital divide• Universal design• Trolling,

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Learner-Driven

• (Texts)• Learning

Outcomes• Policies• Assignments• Feedback &

Grading

Value community

over content

Public Engagement

Blogs: Who is student work for?

PLNs: What can student work do?

ePorts: Who owns student work?

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Personal

Reflective Portfolio

Portal for sharing and collaborating

OER Open Pedagogy Open Access

How does “open” affect

us as SCHOLARS?

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What Will the Digital Age Enable?

Technology allows for efficient worldwide dissemination of research and scholarship. But closed distribution models can get in the way. Open access helps to fulfill the promise of the digital age.

~Jennifer Jenkins, Duke University

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We Can Do It!

“We can be confident that OA journals are journals. There's more than enough money already committed to the journal-support system. Moreover, as OA spreads, libraries will realize large savings from the conversion, cancellation, or demise of non-OA journals.”

~Peter Suber

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Plymouth State

Annual Cost for Databases: $271,000

Annual Cost for Additional Journals: $251,000

TOTAL ANNUAL: $522,000

to OPEN (vb.)• Challenge barriers to access. Be

honest and critical.• Center learners. Be radical and real.

• Facilitate connection. Be a sticky node, not a gate.

• Share research. Be generous and just.

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icThink about how we can:

• increase access to public higher education (OER)

• engage learners with the publics beyond the classroom

(OpenPed)• maximize our public impact

as a scholars (OA)

This is the case for public education.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

License.

Robin DeRosa@actualham