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Open Educational Resources & Open Access
Sara Rutter | OER Librarian
Outreach College
University of Hawaii Manoa
Words associated with OER & OA
Educational Web Create
Shared Free Revisable Reusable
Open Social JusticeAffordability
OER is...
"The open provision of educational resources,
enabled by information and communication
technologies, for consultation, use and
adaptation by a community of users for non-
commercial purposes." UNESCO, 2002
OER is...
"The idea behind Open Educational Resources
(OER) is simple but powerful—educational
materials made freely and legally available on the
Internet for anyone to reuse, revise, remix and
redistribute." William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2013
David Wiley: Defining the "Open" in Open Content
The term "open content" describes any
copyrightable work ... that is licensed in a manner
that provides users with free and perpetual
permission to engage in the 5R activities.
5 R ActivitiesRetain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content
Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new
Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others
Rights granted in Creative Commons Licensing
Students struggle to complete degrees
uh oh!
Student Public Interest Research Groups
--65% of students have decided against
purchasing or renting a required textbook
--94% of these students believed this choice
would hurt their grade
Financing a college education
American College Health Association (2014),
finances are the second-largest stressor for
students after academics—more than a third of
students described finances as “traumatic” or
“very difficult” to handle.
Financing a college education
About one in four first-year students and one in
three seniors frequently did not purchase required
academic materials due to their cost, and a third of
students believed that financial concerns interfered
with their academic performance. NSSE Annual Report 2012
OER implementation in higher education
OER at the University of Hawaii
❏Honolulu Community College❏ Leeward Community College ❏ Kapiolani Community College ❏UH Manoa
Outreach CollegeUH Manoa Library
oer.hawaii.edu
Is it worth the effort?
Yes! Committing to OA and OER
--Students have access to required/needed materials on the first day of class
--Instructors can tailor the materials to their students and to their instructional needs
--An opportunity to redesign courses for today’s learners.
Recommendations
-Start applying Creative Commons licensing and
practice licensing your creative works.
-Add your course materials to the UH OER
Repository oer.hawaii.edu/admin
-Check out the OER Guides,
guides.oer.hawaii.edu
Attribution
"Open Content" by David Wiley is licensed under CC BY 4.0
"National Survey of Student Engagement Annual Results 2012" by Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research
"ACHA National College Health Assessment Spring 2014" by American College Health Association
"How College Students Battled Textbook Publishers To A Draw, In 3 Graphs" by David Kestnebaum
Ethan Senack, Open Textbooks: the billion dollar solution Student PIRGS is licensed under CC BY 4.0
The era of the textbook cartel and $300 textbooks is ending, as the ‘college textbook bubble’ shows signs of deflating" by Mark J. Perry, American Enterprise Institute. (Carpe Diem)
Images
"Delivery-Scooter" by Luis Prado, Noun Project is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / A derivative from the original work
"Drowning" by OCHA Visual Information Unit, Noun Project is in the Public Domain, CC0
