Brief talk for TEDxSANDY on open educational resources (OER) and how they relieve some of the cost and quality pressures in education.

1. OER: Relieving the Pressure

4. Incredible Financial Pressure
Incredible Financial Pressure

5. Tuition Changes...
Involve the State Legislature,
the State Board of Regents

6. Tuition Changes...
Involve the State Legislature,
the State Board of Regents
Extremely complex politically

9. $0
$200
$400
$600
$800
$1,000
$1,200
$1,400
$1,600
$1,800
Tuition Textbooks
Annual Costs
$1288
$1666

10. 60% Sometimes
23% Regularly
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11. Textbook Pricing in Context
Provider Cost
Netflix – 20,000 Movies (and TV) $7.99 / month
Hulu Plus – 45,000 TV (and Movies) $7.99 / month
Spotify – 15M Songs $9.99 / month
CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $20.25 / month

12. Textbook Changes...
Involve individual faculty,
sometimes a department

13. Textbook Changes...
Involve individual faculty,
sometimes a department
Relatively straightforward

14. Open Educational Resources

15. Open Educational Resources?
Any kind of teaching materials –
textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,
videos, readings, exams

16. Open Educational Resources?
1. Free and unfettered access, and
2. Free permission to engage in the
“5R activities”

17. • Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 5Rs

18. http://creativecommons.org/

19. Over 500M OER in the World
Over half a billion pieces of content
use Creative Commons licenses

21. “You may not take any Online
Course offered by Coursera or use
any Statement of Accomplishment
as part of any tuition-based or for-
credit certification or program for
any college, university, or other
academic institution without the
express written permission from
Coursera.”

30. Ok, ok... I admit it!
There’s a bunch of free stuff online
But everybody knows “you get what you pay for”

31. Two Stories

32. Developmental Math
From textbook and MyMathLab ($170)
To OER and MyOpenMath ($0 / $3)

33. % Completing with C or Better
48.4%
60.2%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Spring
2011
No OER
Spring
2013
All OER

34. “Golden Ratio”
48% / $170 = 0.28% succeeding per dollar
60% / $3 = 20% succeeding per dollar

35. Associates of Business
“Z Degree”
Graduate without ever buying a textbook
World’s first “all-OER” degree

36. % Dropping in Fall 2013
8.2%
2.3%
0%
1%
2%
3%
4%
5%
6%
7%
8%
9%
Traditional
Sections
Z Degree
Sections

37. When a student drops, it..
Slows down their graduation
Costs the institution tuition dollars

38. (Middle and High Schools, Too)
Students using open science textbooks
perform the same or better on
state standardized tests

39. OER Relieves Some of the Pressure

40. Dramatically
improve a range
of educational
outcomes
Drastically reduce
the cost of
education

41. We’re not “on the edge”
of this capability.
It’s here now.

42. can advocate
for OER!
If not
you, who?

43. Thank You
http://lumenlearning.com/
http://davidwiley.org/
@opencontent
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