Workshop on OER policy, advocacy and communications.

1. COMMUNICATING OPEN
POLICY AND ADVOCACY
IN OPEN EDUCATION
NICOLE ALLEN | #NEOERSUMMIT18 | 5/30/18

2. @txtbks
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3. @txtbks | sparcopen.org

4. STUDENTS CAN’T LEARN
FROM BOOKS THEY
CAN’T AFFORD

5. https://www.aei.org/publication/wednesday-afternoon-links-30/

6. https://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/isbn/9781305585126

7. openstax.org

8. @txtbks | sparcopen.org
9%
of faculty are using open
educational resources in at least
one of their courses
https://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html

9. openedgroup.org/review
academic research showing
the impact of OER vs.
traditional materials

10. OER POLICY

11. $2 billion grant program for workforce training that
requires CC BY license for all resources created

12. There is a growing body of
evidence that the use of open
education resources improves
the quality of teaching and
learning…The United States
is committed to open
education…”

16. IS YOUR STATE ON THE MAP?

21. OER ADVOCACY

22. POLICY IS A TOOL
NOT A GOAL

24. POLICY IS ONLY
AS GOOD AS ITS
IMPLEMENTATION

25. http://libguides.uta.edu/TXtoolkit

26. POLICY STARTS (AND ENDS)
WITH STAKEHOLDERS

28. STAKEHOLDERS
STUDENTS + PARENTS
LIBRARY
FACULTY
ADMIN
BOOKSTORE
PUBLISHERS
TAXPAYERS

29. OER COMMS

30. https://wapo.st/2qyav0F

31. @txtbks | sparcopen.org
“Costs have gotten as bad as
they can get, so any step you
take [seems to] lead in a better
direction. The question is: How
quickly will that path end up
right back where we started?”
https://wapo.st/2qyav0F

32. OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES

33. OPEN
FREE + PERMISSION
Retain
Reuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute
5Rs

34. Open Educational Resources
are teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under
an intellectual property license that
permits their free use and re-
purposing by others.
Hewlett Definition

35. Open Educational Resources
are teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under
an intellectual property license that
permits their free use and re-
purposing by others.
Hewlett Definition

36. Open Educational Resources
are teaching, learning and research
materials in any medium, digital or
otherwise, that reside in the public
domain or have been released under
an open license that permits
no-cost access, use, adaptation and
redistribution by others with no or
limited restrictions.
UNESCO Definition

37. Open Educational Resources
are freely available, high-quality learning
materials that can be downloaded,
edited, and shared to better serve all
students.
(something even simpler)

38. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

39. STUDENTS

40. FACULTY

41. FOCUS ON WHY
NOT JUST WHAT

42. “OPEN IN ORDER TO…”

43. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018421.pdf
Three-year persistence by parents’ education

44. http://strongernation.luminafoundation.org/report/2018
Credential attainment by race and ethnicity

45. Postsecondary student characteristics
http://tech.ed.gov/HigherEdNETP

46. AVOID JARGON

47. CC BY
CC BY-SA
CC BY-NC-SA

48. CC BY
CC BY-SA
CC BY-NC-SA
CC NY-NC-SA-WTF

49. FIGHT OPENWASHING

51. OPEN
FREE + PERMISSION
Retain
Reuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute
5Rs

52. https://www.cengage.com/institutional/opennow/

53. @txtbks | sparcopen.org
“As OER has gained momentum, more
and more companies want to attach
themselves to the idea of being
open… Is it really open, or is it just
being branded as open? Open is not
just a set of attributes, it’s a set of
values and practices that make
education better.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/10/cengage-offers-new-oer-based-
product-general-education-courses

54. http://www.intelluslearning.com/2018/02/13/macmillan-learning-launches-intellus-open-courses-an-enriched-oer-course-solution/

55. @txtbks | sparcopen.org
“If all this program amounts to
is charging students $14.99 for
access to flexible content, that's
a step up from the status quo.
But we should not be calling it
OER. OER locked behind a
paywall is not open. It's just
content."
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/02/14/another-
publisher-macmillan-expands-footprint-open-textbook

56. OPEN IS MORE THAN
“FREE” OR “PERMISSION”

57. @txtbks | sparcopen.org
“Open is about enabling
everyone, everywhere to
freely use, share, and build
upon knowledge in any
way they can imagine.”

58. CONNECT OPEN
TO YOUR MISSION

60. @txtbks
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