#acrl2017 oer preconference
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THE CASE FOR
OER
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the status quo is broken
Consumer Prices 2006 – 2016U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Textbooks
Tuition & Fees
All Items
Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2016-17
Source: College Board
Books & Supplies = $1,200+
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“the straw that broke the camel’s back”
6 months
DONE READING?
GOOD
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Captive Market
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5 major publishers hold nearly 90% of the
market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch
Near-Monopoly
Data Source: NACS
Mixed MessagesStudent Spending on Textbooks
Prices
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2 in 3Students say they decided against buying a textbook
because the cost is too high
Source: Student PIRGs
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1 in 2Students say they have at some point taken fewer courses due
to the cost of textbooks
Source: Florida Virtual Campus
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<1 in 2Students purchase a current
edition of their textbook
Source: Book Industry Study Group
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students cannot learn from books they can’t afford
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we can do better
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what isopen?
OPEN EDUCATION
OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
Sound Bite:“Open educational resources are freely available materials that can be downloaded, edited, and shared to better serve all students.”
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OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
OPEN Free + Permissions
RetainReuseReviseRemixRedistribute
5Rs
technologyenables
copyright forbids
open licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org
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most open
All Rights Reserved©
most closed
OER5R permissionsretain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
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why does it matter?
tcc.edu/academics/degrees/textbook-free
Open resources in every single course,
reduces cost of degree 20%, increases
completion
“Thanks to the Z-Degree program I didn’t have to choose between continuing my education or getting braces for my daughter”
- Melissa Koch, TCC Student
12 percentage point increase in student success measure
"This launched us in to a new direction, allowing us to be creative and unfettered in developing course materials that would meet the needs of the students at our respective colleges and that could also be…freely and widely distributed.”
Prof. Howard Miller Mercy College
$1.3 million in student savings by working with faculty to adopt free &
open resources
I wanted my students to gain hands on experience managing a project… So I asked my students to engage in a very large scale revise / remix project.” - @opencontent
Award winning statistics text
open isfree + 5Rs
open isa means
open isa process
open ischanging lives
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