Why Should You Care about
Open Educational Resources?
Una T. Daly, Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
May 25, 2016
Welcome
Una Daly, CCCOER DirectorInstructional Design @One
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250+ Colleges in 21 States and Provinces
http://oerconsortium.org
OER Quiz
• Textbook prices increasing at same rate as consumer index
• eBooks = Open Textbooks
• Open Educational Resources (OER) are Public Domain
Open Educational ResourcesOpenly licensed learning materials that can be used for
teaching, learning, & assessment without cost. They can be modified and redistributed without violating copyright law.
U.S. Department of Ed, Office of Ed Technology
Examples• Lesson plans• Open Courseware• Open textbooks• Videos• Images• Tests• Software• Tools, materials, or techniques to access knowledge freely
adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license
Creative Commons Licenses
Simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions
Adapted from Ronda Neugebauer Slidesshare
Permission: Attribute Commercial? Share alike?
http://creativecommons.org
Students spending less??
• The bad news is students often not purchasing their textbooks
• Students concerned about grades• Faculty expect students to have
access to instructional materials
Student PIRGs, Covering the Cost, 2016
Put Faculty in Charge
• No more covering extra chapters because book is so expensive
• No requirement to change versions every couple of years
• You can customize your instructional materials
• Many open textbooks have ancillaries
• 30% of students used financial aid to buy textbooks– $300+ (on average) per semester – 50% of community college students– 28% of 4-year college, univ students
• $3 billion per year of financial aid used to purchase textbooks by undergraduates
Student PIRGs Survey, Covering the Cost, 2016
Financial Aid & Textbooks
California Textbook Affordability Act 2015
• Incentive grants to CCC and CSU to accelerate adoption of OER to save students money. (AB 798)
• OER Degree programs for CCC (California Governor’s Proposed Budget 2016-17)– http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3392
Top 50 College Courses
GeographyHistory KinesiologyMathMusicPhilosophyPhysicsPolitical SciencePsychologySociologySpanishStatistics
AccountingArt HistoryBiology BusinessChemistryChild DevelopmentCommunicationComputer scieneEconomicsEducationEnglish Electronic Media
http://cool4ed.org
Faculty Showcases
• Biology• Chemistry• Communication
s• History• Political Science• Spanishhttp://cool4ed.org/facultyshowcase.html
Biology 140Organismal Biology
History 130US History to 1877
SPAN 100Spanish
http://cool4ed.org/reviews.html#humanities
Criminal Justice Open Textbook
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=66
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to Criminal LawChapter 2: The Legal System in the United StatesChapter 3: Constitutional ProtectionsChapter 4: The Elements of a CrimeChapter 5: Criminal Defenses, Part 1Chapter 6: Criminal Defenses, Part 2Chapter 7: Parties to CrimeChapter 8: Inchoate OffensesChapter 9: Criminal HomicideChapter 10: Sex Offenses and Crimes Involving Force, Fear, and Physical RestraintChapter 11: Crimes against PropertyChapter 12: Crimes against the PublicChapter 13: Crimes against the GovernmentChapter 14: Appendix A: Case Listings
Open Licensing• Google Images
– Advanced Search Settings
• YouTube– Filter keywords with CC for creative
commons
• Flickr– Go directly to
Flickr.com/CreativeCommons
Open Course Resource Guides
• Biology• Chemistry• Communications• History• Political Science
Released April 1, 2016Permalink for online version: http://tinyurl.com/WPOERAdoption040116Printable PDF with Appendices: http://tinyurl.com/WPOERPrintVersion2 Video Synopsis: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=vwVIrv0iSgE
351 students completed survey about their use of OER
• When students were asked if the OER textbook chapter(s) were better than the traditional, 42% said the OER textbook as better, 39% said they were about the same, 11% rated the textbook as worse than the traditional textbook and 8% declined to answer.
• Of the 351 students in the survey, 71 printed the textbook and 209 used a PDF
• Students find OER Textbooks to be readable with respect to organization, format, graphics and examples used
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group
351 students completed survey about their use of OER
• 16% of students wanted to have the option to purchase a printed copy of the textbook from the bookstore for a small fee (10% of students wanted to print the textbook themselves)
• The predominant platform for reading e-textbooks is a laptop computer (only 89 of 351 students reported reading from their cell phones)
• 100% of the students in the study wanted to use OER textbooks in the future and would recommend the use of OER to friends
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group
16 faculty shared perceptions about their use of OER
• Seven faculty of sixteen felt that the OER textbook was superior to the traditional textbook for the course. Five faculty rated the OER as equivalent to the traditional textbook.
• Faculty were not as positive about the support materials (PowerPoints, Test banks) available with the OER textbooks. Half of the faculty felt that the support materials lacked quality. 25% of faculty felt that implementing the support materials took a significant amount of time. In their comments, the biggest comment made by faculty was about the need for support materials or the amount of time they spent in developing them for this adoption.
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group
13 Peer Reviewed Studies of OER Efficacy
http://openedgroup.org/
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group
119,720 Students
http://openedgroup.org/
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group
95% Same or Better Outcomes
http://openedgroup.org/
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group
• Access to high-quality OER
• Faculty choice & development
• Student success
Community College Consortiumfor OER (CCCOER)
http://oerconsortium.org
Come In, We're Open gary simmons cc-by-nc-sa flickr
Free Webinars Spring 2016
• Feb 10: OER Faculty Development Best Practices
• March 10: OER Adoption to Scale: Stories from 4 States
• April 23: NOBA OER Psychology Community
• May 11: Faculty Perspectives on OER
• June 8: Open Pedagogy (LAST ONE LEFT!)Archived webinars available
https://oerconsortium.org/cccoer-webinars/
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• Access to a community of OER experts• Online advisory email list• Collaboration opportunities: grants,
conferences• OER Professional development services
Email: [email protected]: @unatdaly, @cccoerhttp://oerconsortium.org