This brief (30 minute) overview of open educational resources and their benefits was presented to the a meeting of college of business faculty at university in Utah.
2. 2
Textbook Costs and Student Success
Outcomes
Six-year
graduation
rate for
open access
institutions
33%
Avg. annual textbook
cost per college
student
$1,200
Costs growing
3x
inflation
Cost
students go without
textbooks due to cost
6 in 10
take fewer
courses
due to
textbook
cost
35%
Access
of community college
students achieve
credential goals
<50%
3. Providing
Access
Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Make a copy
of a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
Distribute
a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
4.
5.
6. 6
Internet, Textbook Costs, Student Success
Outcomes
Six-year
graduation
rate for
open access
institutions
?%
Avg. annual textbook
cost per college
student
< $50
Costs
dropping
Cost
students go without
textbooks due to cost
0 in 10
take fewer
courses
due to
textbook
cost
0%
Access
of community college
students achieve
credential goals
?%
9. Copyright
Regulates
Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Copying
of a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
Distributing
a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
19. • Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 5Rs
22. Copyright
Regulates
Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Make a copy
of a work
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
Make changes
to a work
$1000s per
copy
$100s per copy $0.01s per
copy
Redistribute
a work
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
27. 27
Textbook Costs and Student Success
Outcomes
Six-year
graduation
rate for
open access
institutions
?%
Avg. annual textbook
cost per college
student
< $50
Costs
dropping
Cost
students go without
textbooks due to cost
0 in 10
take fewer
courses
due to
textbook
cost
0%
Access
of community college
students achieve
credential goals
?%
33. Results
Increased:
• Completion (X2
res = +2.9, -2.9)
• C or Better (X2
res = -2.5, +2.7)
• Credits this term t(8101) = 27.81, p < .01
• Credits next term F(1, 6440) = 154.08,
p <.01
Submitted to Computers in Education
36. Method
Quasi-experimental design with:
• Treatment and Control Group
• Propensity Score Matching
• Dependent variable: Score on 2012
statewide standardized science exam
• Independent variable: Textbook condition
• 15 Covariates: including age, gender,
special education, English language
proficiency, 2011 test data, 2011 GPA, and
race
37. Outcome: State Standardized Test
• IRT scaled scores increased
with open textbooks, p < .001
• Multiple r squared = .635
• Published in Ed Researcher