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Running Effective OER + Open Textbook Initiatives in Your Academic Library
#ACRL2017 • #LIBOERNicole Allen and Sarah Faye Cohen
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What will we do today?• Learn the basics of OER and how to talk about it on
campus.• Explore how you’ll incorporate successful strategies into
your own OER strategy.• Begin developing an action plan for your campus in order
to advance OER in your local context.• Practice addressing stakeholders and challenging
situations to prepare you to address and overcome common challenges in OER adoption.
How will we do this?• By working together• By sharing• By listening• By asking questions• By building connections• By trying new things
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A few ground rules…• Be present• Be positive• Participate fully• Ask questions• Support each other’s
learning
Presenter Introductions
@thesheck @txtbks
Introductions Around the Room• Who are you?• What’s your home institution?• What does OER look like at your institution?• Or, what do you want it to look like?
• What are you hoping to learn today?
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Break & Post-It ExerciseDuring the break, grab a post-it and answer the following question.
What is one thing you want to be more comfortable addressing about OER / open
textbooks before you leave today?
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Clarifying Open• What is it?• Why does it matter?• What are the implications?
THE CASE FOR
OER
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the status quo is broken
Consumer Prices 2006 – 2016U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Textbooks
Tuition & Fees
All Items
Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2016-17
Source: College Board
Books & Supplies = $1,200+
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“the straw that broke the camel’s back”
6 months
DONE READING?
GOOD
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Captive Market
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5 major publishers hold nearly 90% of the
market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch
Near-Monopoly
Data Source: NACS
Mixed MessagesStudent Spending on Textbooks
Prices
2 in 3Students say they decided against buying a textbook
because the cost is too high
Source: Student PIRGs
1 in 2Students say they have at some point taken fewer
courses due to the cost of textbooks
Source: Florida Virtual Campus
<1 in 2Students purchase a current edition of their textbook
Source: Book Industry Study Group
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students cannot learn from books they can’t
afford
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we can do better
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what isopen?
OPEN EDUCATION
OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
Sound Bite:“Open educational resources are freely available materials that can be downloaded, edited, and shared to better serve all students.”
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OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
OPEN Free + Permissions
RetainReuseReviseRemixRedistribute
5Rs
technologyenables
copyright forbids
open licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org
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most open
All Rights Reserved©
most closed
OER5R permissionsretain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
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why does it matter?
tcc.edu/academics/degrees/textbook-free
Open resources in every single course,
reduces cost of degree 20%, increases
completion
“Thanks to the Z-Degree program I didn’t have to choose between continuing my education or getting braces for my daughter”
- Melissa Koch, TCC Student
12 percentage point increase in student success measure
"This launched us in to a new direction, allowing us to be creative and unfettered in developing course materials that would meet the needs of the students at our respective colleges and that could also be…freely and widely distributed.”
Prof. Howard Miller Mercy College
$1.3 million in student savings by working with faculty to adopt free &
open resources
I wanted my students to gain hands on experience managing a project… So I asked my students to engage in a very large scale revise / remix project.” - @opencontent
Award winning statistics text
open isfree + 5Rs
open isa means
open isa process
open ischanging lives
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except where otherwise noted
Activity: Make Your PitchDevelop and practice ways to make the case for OER on
your campus.
Activity: Make Your PitchWhat are you doing?
• Create a message that combines data & local stories that matter to your audience. • Identify and explore your
audience. Why are they important to address? What matters to them? What do they need to make a decision?
How to do it.• Two groups per table.• Use the data points on
your table. • You will have 30
minutes to create a pitch for this audience.• Select a spokesperson
to share the pitch.
Questions for Feedback• Is the pitch calibrated to the audience?• In what way does the speaker define the problem?• How does the speaker combine data and a story in a
compelling manner?• What steps might the audience take after hearing the
pitch? Are these the steps the speaker was hoping for?• What is one way the pitch might be improved?
Lunch Until 1:15Be sure to vote on the topics for what you want to know
about using post-its. Lunch is on your own.
Breakout Table Topics•Building systematic, sustainable programs•Buy-in and concerns with administration•Faculty engagement•Working with the bookstore• I still need help with…
Breakout Table InstructionsAppoint Roles
•Facilitator•Notetaker
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Discussion Questions
With respect to your topic…•What questions still need to be answered?•What steps can you take on this when you get home?
Breakout Table Instructions1 Programs 2 Programs3 Programs4 Programs5 Programs6 Admin
7 Faculty 8 Faculty9 Faculty10 Faculty11 Bookstore12 Wildcard
Report BackLet’s hear the key takeaways from each breakout group.
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Break Until 2:45We’re almost there!
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Reframing Your ResponsesA few key tips for framing your conversations about OER.
Beware of demonizing!
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Try not to overwhelm.
Don’t come to me with the entire truth.Don’t bring me the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for light.
-from Olav Hauge’s
“Don’t come to me with the entire truth,”
translated by Robert Bly
Leave Quality Judgment to Faculty
Respect Academic Freedom
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Find your voice.
Common Questions• They can’t be that good if they’re free, right?• Is the quality the same as other textbooks?• Are students learning using these resources?• What about our campus bookstore? If we support this
effort, won't they go out of business?• How do I find the time to adopt OER?
What’s your action plan?Identify three steps you are going to take when you get
back to campus
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ProblemSolutionGoalStrategyTactics
SpecificMeasurableAttainableRealisticTime-based
SMART Goal Setting
The Strategy Scale• Create a climate where X is likely to do
Y• Persuade X to do Y• Incentivize X to do Y• Put pressure X to do Y• Hold X accountable for not doing Y
The Strategy Scale• Create a climate where X is likely to do
Y• Persuade X to do Y• Incentivize X to do Y• Put pressure X to do Y• Hold X accountable for not doing Y
Tactics You Can Use• Awareness Tactics• Persuasion Tactics• Incentive Tactics
Stay in Touch!Hashtag: #LibOER
Listserv: www.liboer.orgNotes: http://bit.ly/ACRL-OER
#ACRL2017 • #LIBOER
Sarah Faye Cohen sfcohen@umn.edu@thesheck
Nicole Allennicole@sparcopen.org@txtbks
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