#OAweek14 @ WFU: OER and Solving �the Textbook Cost Crisis

The cost of college textbooks has grown to a point that virtually every campus is now seeking solutions. While many colleges and universities like UNCG have successfully reduced costs through stop-gap measures such as rental programs and textbook reserves, the greatest potential for permanently solving the problem lies in Open Educational Resources (OERs), which are academic materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, adapt, and share. Institutions across the country have begun to leverage OERs to reduce textbook costs, expand access to information, and enable faculty to better tailor materials to their courses. This talk will provide an overview of the OER movement to date, including how to identify OERs, how they are created, and research showing the impact on students. It will also help frame the opportunity for UNCG to advance OER right on campus.

1. Open Educational Resources and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis Nicole Allen ( [email protected] ) Director of Open Education, SPARC WFU | #OAweek2014 | Oct. 23, 2014 Except where otherwise noted...

2. SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. www.sparc.arl.org

3. Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014 www.righttoresearch.org

4. www.sparc.arl.org

5. Source http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13- 368

6. $1,207 Average student budget for books and supplies for the 2013-2014 academic year Source http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2013-14

7. Physics: Principles With Applications, 7 th Edition by Douglas C. Giancoli

8. Source http:// uncg.bncollege.com / webapp / wcs /stores/servlet/ BNCBTBListView

9. Source http:// uncg.bncollege.com / webapp / wcs /stores/servlet/ BNCBTBListView

10. Source http:// www.studentpirgs.org /sites/student/files/reports/A-Cover-To-Cover-Solution_4.pdf

11. Conventional Measures http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/cover-cover- solution % Student Savings Over New Print Text

12. Source http:// www.coursesmart.com /macroeconomics-fifth-edition/ stephen -d- williamson / dp /9780132992787

13. Source http:// www.coursesmart.com /macroeconomics-fifth-edition/ stephen -d- williamson / dp /9780132992787

14. Image © from http:// www.cnn.com /2013/06/28/showbiz/heat-director-buddy-cop/ DONE READING? GOOD

15. Market Failure

16. 2 in 3 Students say they decided against buying a textbook because the cost is too high Source http:// www.uspirg.org /reports/ usp /fixing-broken-textbook-market

17. 1 in 2 Students say they have at some point taken fewer courses due to the cost of textbooks Source http:// www.openaccesstextbooks.org / pdf /2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf

18. Students can’t learn from materials they can’t afford

19. We can do better.

20. O PEN E DUCATIONAL R ESOURCES

21. Hewlett Foundation Definition: “OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”

22. Hewlett Foundation Definition: “OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”

23. 1. Free (no cost, no barriers) 2. Reuse Rights (open license or public domain)

24. “All Rights Reserved” is like “Call Me Maybe” Source http:// www.soundmagonline.com /copyedit-your-song-titles-maybe-a-history-of-the-comma-in-no-1-pop-songs / (used without permission under fair use) You have to ask permission before using © material

25. Open Licensing Uses copyright to enable free sharing and reuse

26. (easy-to-use open licenses) www.creativecommons.org

27. most free least free Slide adapted from Cable Green http://www.slideshare.com/cgreen OER not OER

28. See www.opencontent.org for full definition. The “5R” Permissions

29. What are OER?

30. (1) OpenCourseWare

31. Captured from http:// ocw.mit.edu /about/

32. Captured from http:// open.umich.edu /education/med

33. Captured from http:// open.umich.edu /education/med/m1/patients-pop-decision-making/fall2011/materials

34. Captured from http:// www.youtube.com / watch?v =DFU7fUff7PA

35. (2) OER Repositories

36. http:// cnx.org

37. http:// www.oercommons.org

38. (3) Open Textbooks www.sparc.arl.org

39. Captured from http:// openstaxcollege.org /

40. Open Textbook (Example) Free online Free PDF Free ePub Print $49.73 Instructor can adapt and distribute http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college- physics

41. Physics: Principles With Applications, 7 th Edition by Douglas C. Giancoli

42. http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/feb/osu-open-textbook-initiative-aims-reduce-student-costs-enhance- learning

43. (4) Open Courses www.sparc.arl.org

44. http:// oli.cmu.edu /courses/free-open/introductory-psychology-course-details/

45. How is OER Supported?

46. (1) Institutional and State-Funded Initiatives www.sparc.arl.org

47. Captured from http:// opencourselibrary.org / 81 Courses

48. All OER 2-Year Degree www.sparc.arl.org

49. (2) Funder Policies www.sparc.arl.org

50. Source http:// www.doleta.gov / taaccct /

51. Source http:// www.californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu /Portals/0/ DocDownloads / PressReleases /SEP2013/PRESS_RELEASE_CreativeCommonsBY_090913_FINAL.pdf

52. (3) Faculty Support

53. Image © from http:// www.teleread.com / wp -content/uploads/2009/02/ bookstorerummage.jpg

54. http:// open.umn.edu

55. http:// open.umn.edu Catalog of open textbooks containing 100+ Faculty reviews Runs workshops at campuses across the country

56. http:// open.umn.edu

57. http:// www.lumenlearning.org

58. http:// www.lumenlearning.org Startup company provides soup to nuts support for OER adoption Template courses that faculty adapt Performs assessments on outcomes

59. (4) Libraries

60. Source http://guides.library.umass.edu/content.php?pid=87648&sid=4778777

61. Captured from http://guides.library.umass.edu/content.php?pid=87648&sid=4778777 Offers mini grants to faculty to switch to OER/affordable materials Workshops and consultation sessions for 30 + faculty participants $1,000,000 student savings

62. www.sparc.arl.org

63. www.sparc.arl.org Goal to save students $250K in 2 years Students voted to use fees to hire full time OER librarian to coordinate Hit goal within first year

64. Impact of OER

65. $1M student savings, and counting

66. Supporting Adoption Adapted from slides by David Wiley available under CC BY at http:// www.slideshare.net / opencontent

67. Source http://pm4id.org/

68. http:// en.wikipedia.org /wiki/File:Laurentius_de_Voltolina_001. jpg (public domain) The Medieval Lecture

69. http:// commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File: 5th_Floor_Lecture_Hall.jpg (CC BY-SA) The Modern Lecture

70. Advance our systems for sharing information toward openness

71. Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014 www.righttoresearch.org “Generation Open”

72. Open Educational Resources and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis Nicole Allen ( [email protected] ) Director of Open Education, SPARC WFU | #OAweek2014 | Oct. 23, 2014 Except where otherwise noted...