putting the "public" back in public highered
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Putting the “Public”
Back in Public Higher
Education
Robin DeRosa
@actualhamChair, Interdisciplinary Studies
Plymouth State University
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What is “Public” Education?
At one NH state university, only 9% of revenues come from the state
So really,
what does it mean to be a public college?
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?
OOpen Education
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Open Pedagogy
• Open Access to research
• Student textbooks cost about $1,200 per year.
• That’s equal to 12% of tuition at my university.
• Students worry more about paying for books than they worry about paying for college.
• Textbook costs have risen 812% since 1978.
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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• 14% have dropped a course and 10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook costs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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The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
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“When you’re blogging, you’re not just writing for your teacher. If you have
an open blog online, you’re writing for an
audience. It really got me started in terms of my
own writing.”
The ePort: portfolio/portal
• Student-owned (motivation & accountability)
• Student-designed (personalization & creativity)
• Student-built (media literacy)
• Tied to learner, not to courses (lifelong learning)
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Open Pedagogy
• Community and collaboration over content.
• Connects the university with the wider public.
• Treats education as a learner-developed process.
CONTENT as Dynamic
“The amount of knowledge in the world has doubled in the past 10 years and is [now] doubling every 18 months…To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.”
~Cathy Gonzalez
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OER Open Pedagogy Open Access
Now what does this
mean for 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 economically sustainable because the true costs of peer review, manuscript preparation, and OA dissemination are considerably lower than the prices we currently pay for subscription-based 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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Think about how we can:
• increase access to public higher education (OER)
• engage learners with the world beyond the classroom
(OpenPed)• Maximize our impact as a
scholars (OA)
This is the case forpublic education.
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To get started, follow:
@actualham#oer, #digped, #oa,
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