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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookOpen Educational Resources and Beyond
Campus Technology ForumApril 8, 2014
Kim ThanosLumen Learning Co-founder and CEO
Kaleidoscope Program [email protected]
In every high-enrollment course that Lumen Learning touches our
goal is to:
Reduce textbook cost by
90%
Increase student success by 10%
through the use of open educational resources and
learning analytics.
Topics
WHY the realities of the content ecosystem
WHAT open educational resources
HOW proven sources for fifty courses
AND THEN the opportunity created
Reality One: Textbook costs are a barrier to student
success
Shared by Kim Thanos under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Community College Textbook Costs
Fall 2013
Intermediate Algebra at one community college
$590,186
Top 10 Courses at one community college
$4,669,152
Developmental Math in California Community Colleges
$15,817,500
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10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost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
Measuring Cost and Quality
0%
20%
40%
60%
65%54%
Mercy College: Student Success
Students Earning a C or Bet-ter
$-
$40.00
$80.00
$120.00
$160.00
$5.00
$170.00
Mercy College: CostDollars per student per
course
Reality Two: Content is a Commodity
Who completed the Stanford prison experiment?
How did the results influence the field of psychology?
$100’s of millions of dollars invested by private foundations
Billions of dollars invested by the U.S. government
Personal investments by teachers and experts who care
Reality Three: Digital Favors Scale
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Blockbuster
Local Newspaper
Tower Records
Borders
Netflix
Huffington Post
iTunes
Amazon
Reality Four: In Ecosystems, Diversity = Sustainability
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Image by: moizissimo via FlickrCC-BY-NC-ND
Significant Market Correction
use copyright to enforce sharing
Makes It Easy to Share: 4Rs
• 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 copies of the original content, revisions or remixes with others
Redistribute
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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.
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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookGo to the Stax, Max.
1. Statistics2. Physics3. Sociology4. Principles of econ5. Macroeconomics6. Microeconomics7. Biology for majors8. Biology for non-majors9. Anatomy and Physiology
Openstaxcollege.org
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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookTry MyOpenMath, Kath.
10.Arithmetic11.Beginning algebra12.Intermediate algebra13.College algebra14.Precalculus/trig15.Calculus I16.Calculus II17.Math for liberal arts18.Business calculus
Myopenmath.com
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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookCreate something new, Drew.
19.English composition I20.English composition II21.Developmental writing22.Development reading23.College success24.College literacy25.Intro to computing
Lumenlearning.com/courses
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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookCheck out Saylor, Taylor.
26.Music27.Art appreciation28.Philosophy29.Public speaking30.Logic and critical thinking31.American politics32.Comparative politics33.International relations34.World history35.American history II
Saylor.org
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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookFind OLI, Guy.
36.Psychology37.French I38.French II39.Statistics
Oli.cmu.edu
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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookCheck OCL, Mel.
40.Anthropology41.Microbiology42.General business43.Western civilization
Opencourselibrary.org
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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookLook to a friend, Jenn.
44.U.S. history II (University of Georgia)45.Information literacy (Open SUNY)46.Native peoples in N.A. (Open SUNY)47.Natural resources biometrics (Open SUNY)48.Humanities (Open SUNY)49.Physical geography (Salt Lake CC)50.Earth science (Salt Lake CC)Plus, Minnesota Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu)And Lard Bucket (2012books.lardbucket.org)
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Just set yourself free.
Makes It Easy to Share: 4Rs
• 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 copies of the original content, revisions or remixes with others
Redistribute
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The True Opportunities
1. Cognitive science-based enhancements to learning materials (Jeffrey Karpicke retrieval over re-reading)
2. Contextualization created and shared by faculty or…
3. Student engagement in creation of learning materials (David Wiley open pedagogy)
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