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Lumen LearningKim ThanosCo-founder & CEOkim@lumenlearning.com

David WileyCo-founder & Chief Academic Officerdavid@lumenlearning.com

Topics

WHAT quick review of terms and meaning

WHY issues and scope

HOW lessons learned in adoption

AND THEN the opportunities created

OER 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.

Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks,

streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support

access to knowledge.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

5Rs: The Powerful Rights of Open

• Make, own, and control your own copy of the contentRetain

• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter

the contentRevise• Combine the original or revised

content with other OER to create something new

Remix• Share your copies of the original

content, revisions, or remixes with others

Redistribute

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A Problem Worth Solving

• Costs escalate unchecked• No concomitant increase in quality• Impact on student…

Learning Access Success Persistence Completion

• Impact on faculty… Control Effectiveness Professionalism

There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

Curriculum

Textbook adoption models

Economic incentives

Policy

Institutional funding models

Institutional contracts

Faculty habitsPublisher-owned

assessment processes

Student fee structures

Faculty support

materials

Financial aid processes

Vendor economic models

Faculty overloadAdjunct development

Lesson 1

Systemic change is required

Source: Tidewater Community College Z degree project team

Lesson 2

An institutional champion is vital

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Faculty Approaches

BUILD ADAPT ADOPT

• Develop new materials

• Aggregate materials from high-quality OER

• Create tools and systems

• Create media• Share or publish

Similar in scope to writing a new textbook with many collaborators.

• Identify high-quality course or resource

• Create significant revision

• Remix, aggregate• Share or publish

Similar in scope to moving from traditional to fully online delivery.

• Review open course• Refine for teaching

approach• Align with syllabus• Assign and reference

Similar in scope to using a new textbook or a major new edition.

Lesson 3

Faculty require diverse approaches and supports

Source: Tidewater Community College Z degree project team

Lesson 4

The community must own the connection

So what?

What can be done only in the context of open?

1. Continuous Quality Improvement

2. Open Pedagogy

Open

5Rs give you permission to make changes, but...

don’t tell you what needs changing.

Analytics

Identify the weaker parts of your course, but...

don’t give you permission to fix them.

Open + Analytics

Open + Analytics

identifying the weaker parts of your course

+ permissions to fix them

continuous quality improvement

Open Pedagogy

What kind of activities can students engage in with OER / open data / open access articles that they cannot do otherwise?

“Disposable Assignments”Students hate doing themYou hate grading themHuge waste of time and energy

• Students see value in doing them• You see value in grading them• Actually add value to the world

“Valuable Assignments”

From Process to Product

In theory, all assignments have students engage in valuable processes.

There’s no reason they shouldn’t result in valuable products.

http://bit.ly/wikisblogs

http://pm4id.org/

You’re already using OER.

Are you taking advantage of all

5Rs?

Are your classes better – not just cheaper – than

before?

Be the example.

Discussion

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