Supporting Student Success with Open Educational Resources

Michelle Barron-Lutzross, MLIS

bepress Consulting Services

Introduction

• What are Open Educational Resources (OER), and how

can they serve your institution’s needs?

• Engaging faculty in conversations about Open

Educational Resources

• Open Educational Resources in the institutional

repository: multimedia teaching tools, textbooks, and

more

Open Educational Resources are...

“teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and

repurposing by others.”

SPARC Open Education Factsheet

Sources: https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SPARC-

Open-Education-Fact-Sheet.pdf

Value and Benefits of OER

Rising Cost of Textbooks

Sources: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/college-tuition-and-fees-increase-63-percent-since-january-2006.htm

OER Cost Savings

Institution Years Student Cost Savings

University of

Massachusetts

Amherst

2011-2015 over $1,000,000

Portland State

University

Spring 2015-Fall 2016 $85,000

George Fox University Fall 2016-Spring 2017 $118,855

Sources: http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/69/,

http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/ulib_fac/210/,

http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/libraries_fac/21/

Recognizing OER for Campus Needs

• Diverse campus groups are connecting open education initiatives to strategic goals.

• Grant-making organizations are funding OER materials or degrees.

• Legislation encouraging OER development has been passed in several states in recent years.

Broadening Your Institutional Appeal

• The library is a natural partner for OER publishing.

• OER in the repository are permanently associated with your institution, giving demonstrated value from your community’s teaching.

• OER can be a recruitment tool for prospective students.

Engaging Faculty

Faculty Awareness of OER

● 2016 Babson report found that

many faculty are still not aware

of several aspects of OER, but

awareness has increased since

2014.

● Awareness varies by discipline

and age group.

Source: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html

Library Support for OER

• Part of your library’s suite of services.

• The library can help with licensing, print on demand, etc.

• Making resources already in the Learning Management System truly open.

Bringing Faculty Aboard

• Start small, with existing materials such as slides.

• Remind faculty: You have already created content that can be used as OER.

• Work up to bigger fish: lectures, textbooks, worksheets, handouts, specimens.

What OER Look Like Now

• Wide variety of institutions are posting OER

• Course materials and multimedia teaching tools

• Textbooks and lectures

• Syllabi

Multimedia Teaching Tools

http://spark.parkland.edu/sim_teach/

http://scholarexchange.furman.edu/fca/

“The David E. Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University has created this easy to use, easy to modify learning module…”

http://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/ta_workshops/

Textbooks

http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/

Digital Commons Dashboard for Textbook Use

http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/oer/1/

http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/

Course Materials

http://repository.upenn.edu/vp3d_scans/

http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/lemb/

http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cssp/

http://scholar.valpo.edu/usmaps/

Lectures

Lectures

“Hello, anyone who might be interested in watching my free organic chemistry lecture videos!”

http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ub_biochem/

http://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/scicolloq/

http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_house/

Syllabi

http://commons.colgate.edu/syllabi/

http://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/

OER on Digital Commons are collected into the Teaching Commons for centralized discovery. http://teachingcommons.us/

Thank you!

For more OER resources:

https://www.bepress.com/library_categories_dc/open-educational-resources/

Questions:

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