DITCH YOUR TEXTBOOK:OER AS DRIVERS OF DIVERSEAND INCLUSIVE PEDAGOGY

Mrs. Terra Gullings, MLIS, CA, Head of University Archives, &Dr. Kyle Gullings, Associate Professor of Music

Center for Excellence in Teaching and LearningThe University of Texas at Tyler

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

INTRODUCTION

OER defined

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s definition:“teaching, learning, and research resources that reside inthe public domain or have been released under anintellectual property license that permits their free useand repurposing by others.”

OER are free to modify and transform. OER can include textbooks, handouts, and even entire curated courses, plus ancillary materials like syllabi, lecture notes, online media, and interactive music notation.

Why support Open Educational Resources?

Costs are rising

“Consumer price indexes for tuition and school-related items, not seasonally adjusted, January 2006–July 2016”U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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

OER Cost Savings

Institution Investment Student Savings

Affordable Learning Georgia1 $2.1 million $26.4 million

North Dakota1 $110,000 $2 million

U Mass Amherst2 $1.6+ million

1.) Dimeo, Jean. “Turning Point for OER Use?” Inside Higher Ed, April 19, 2017.https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/04/19/new-yorks-decision-spend-8-million-oer-turning-point

2.) “UMass Library Open Education Initiative.” Accessed May 17, 2017.https://www.library.umass.edu/services/teaching-and-learning/oer/open-education-initiative/

OER Use in 2015-16

Faculty Awareness of OER

Babson Survey Research Group, Opening the Textbook: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2017Creative Commons License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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

DISCOVERING OER

Discovering OER

Library resource on OER

Ask a Librarian

Talk with colleagues

EVALUATING OER FOR USE: RUBRICS

OER come in all shapes and sizes, including:• individual assignments• syllabi• online modules• entire textbooks/workbooks• even entire courses.

Any of the following tools can be used to evaluate any sizeor type of resource.

Evaluating OER for Use: Rubrics

List of OER Evaluation Rubrics

Achieve's OER rubrics: http://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveOERRubrics.pdf Achieve.org has developed eight OER rubrics as well as an evaluation tool to help users

determine the degree of alignment of OER to the Common Core State Standards, and aspects of quality of OER.

* [Summarized] Rubrics for Evaluating Open Education Resources Objects: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8htrN_MakT9SHJmUjc3TFVzaEk/edit?pli=1 A 2-page rubric synthesizing version of the eight (8) separate rubrics for the evaluation of

OERs created by ACHIEVE.org. It is meant as a ready reference for quick evaluation of an OER.

Credit: Created and shared by Rodney Birch of George Fox University

Achieve Open Educational Resources Evaluation Tool Handbook: http://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveOEREvaluationToolHandbookFINAL.pdf A 40-page handbook that guides a user through the process of evaluating online resources

using the Achieve OER Evaluation Tool, is hosted on OERCommons.org.

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“Open Educational Resources (OER): Evaluate OER” University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, accessed October 1, 2018, https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=246992&p=1645967.

List of OER Evaluation Rubrics (con’t.)

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iRubric: Evaluating OER rubric: http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=L9WC6X&sp=yes Questions to ask about the OER you are thinking of using. This

rubric is developed by Sarah Morehouse with help from Mark McBride, Kathleen Stone, and Beth Burns is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

OER Evaluation Checklist: http://guides.library.illinois.edu/ld.php?content_id=9830689

“Open Educational Resources (OER): Evaluate OER” University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, accessed October 1, 2018, https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=246992&p=1645967.

OER Evaluation Rubrics: The Main Points

Open Educational Resources (OER) Library Guide | Evaluate OER Quality Five common elements of all these rubrics include:

The content under consideration covers the subject areaappropriately

The content of the OER is accurate and free of major errors and spelling mistakes

The license of the content can be used or altered for the course's needs

The OER is clearly written and appropriate for the students' level of understanding

The accessibility of the content is appropriate for all students

“Open Educational Resources (OER) Library Guide,” Iowa State University Library, accessed October 1, 2018, http://instr.iastate.libguides.com/oer/evaluate.

A Closer Look at One Rubric

Open Education Resources Evaluation RubricCreated by Rodney Birch of George Fox University as a way of synthesizing information found in Eight Rubrics developed by ACHIEVE, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

…See actual rubric for details!

Alignment to Course Objectives Explanation of the Subject Matter Utility for Instruction Quality of Assessment Quality of Technological Interactivity Quality of Instructional and Practice Exercises Opportunities for Deeper Learning Accessibility

“Open Education Resources Evaluation Rubric,” Rodney Birch, accessed October 1, 2018, https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8htrN_MakT9SHJmUjc3TFVzaEk/edit?pli=1.

Creative Commons Licenses

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ BY: Attribution (requires that users attribute the creator when material is used

and shared) NC: Non-Commercial (prohibits commercial use of the material) ND: No Derivatives (prohibits the sharing of adaptations of the material) SA: Share-Alike (requires adaptations of the material be released under the

same license) CC0 (Public Domain)

Some Sample Licenses: Attribution ShareAlike CC BY-SA (Wikipedia, Arduino, Kyle Gullings)

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND (TED Talks, Propublica)

HANDS-ON OER EVALUATION ACTIVITY

Hands-on OER Evaluation Activity

“Open Education Resources Evaluation Rubric,” Rodney Birch.https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8htrN_MakT9SHJmUjc3TFVzaEk/edit?pli=1

Evaluate 1 or 2 provided resources using selected criteria. Skip criteria that are not appropriate. If the evaluators are not content area

experts, skip questions of explanation of the subject matter and grade level appropriateness, and possibly also alignment to course content.

Evaluate participant-provided materials (if any volunteers) Evaluate (briefly) the textbook Chemistry from OpenStax:

https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry. (Check out the activity linked on the page “4.4 Reaction Yields”!)

“Open Education Resources Evaluation Rubric,” Rodney Birch, accessed October 1, 2018, https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8htrN_MakT9SHJmUjc3TFVzaEk/edit?pli=1.

Photo courtesy of “Ibai Lemon” on Flickr.comCreative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

https://flic.kr/p/5nCcXa

Join the revolution!

Photo courtesy of “Jameson Gagnepain” on Flickr.comCreative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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SUMMARY / TIME FOR QUESTIONS

DITCH YOUR TEXTBOOK:OER AS DRIVERS OF DIVERSEAND INCLUSIVE PEDAGOGY

Mrs. Terra Gullings, MLIS, CA, Head of University Archives, &Dr. Kyle Gullings, Associate Professor of Music

Center for Excellence in Teaching and LearningThe University of Texas at Tyler

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Contact:tgullings@uttyler.edukgullings@uttyler.edu