1. What We Talk About
When We Talk About
OER
Michelle Reed, @LibrariansReed
Copyright Conference | UTA Libraries | 10.28.16
2. Open Educational Resources
“which are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free
of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission
for open use. Generally, this permission is granted by use of an
open license (for example, Creative Commons licenses) which
allows anyone to freely use, adapt and share the resource—
anytime, anywhere.”
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
(SPARC)
Source:http://sparcopen.org/open-education/
11. Barriers to Adoption
49%
Not enough resources for my subject
48%
Too hard to find what I need
45%
No comprehensive catalog of resources
Source:http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthetextbook2016.pdf
FreeImages.com/bayek
12. The average student budgets
$1,249 - $1,364
on textbooks and course
materials in 2015-16.
Source:http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-
estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2015-16
15. More open access publishing
A change in how we allocate spending
Increased engagement
Improved retention
Improved completion rates
Improved pedagogy
Ownership of course content
New partnerships and collaborative opportunities
Source:SarahCohen,OpenTextbookNetwork
18. OE Rock Stars on Twitter:
David “The Godfather” Wiley @opencontent
Nicole Allen @txtbks
Rajiv Jhangiani @thatpsychprof
Sarah Cohen @thesheck
For a more comprehensive introduction, check out
“Open Education 101: OpenCon Webcast” at
https://youtu.be/5Dauh_PeAzI
@LibrariansReed
(& that’s me)
19. Some Favorite Things
A Film:
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
A Book:
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
A Website:
http://copyrightuser.org/
This presentation is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike - 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Source: http://sparcopen.org/open-education/
See also: http://www.hewlett.org/strategy/open-educational-resources/
1- Are free for anyone to access
2- Include free copyright permission to engage in the 5R activities
(David Wiley)
Source: https://www.plos.org/how-open-is-it
Cause we need that adjective.
Doesn’t mean there isn’t a place in the conversation for affordable course content (eg, library licensed materials) or other “free” content.
DOI: 10.1007/s12528-015-9101-x
Higher or equivalent grades
Higher average credit load
Higher or equivalent completion rates
The reason is because all students are ready on day one.
Source: Sarah Faye Cohen. “Barriers to Open Textbook Adoption.” April 29, 2016. http://www.slideshare.net/thesheck
In addition to improving affordability, OER reinvigorated pedagogy and improves student success.
http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/coursecontent
Image By Bill Branson (Photographer) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons