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Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving: Open Educational Resources Dr. Cable Green Director of eLearning & Open Education SBCTC
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Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving:
Open Educational Resources
Dr. Cable GreenDirector of eLearning & Open Education
SBCTC
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• Open educational resources (OER) means 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 or repurposing by others.
DOE: Definition of OER
• When we cooperate and share, we all win– Faculty have new choices when building
learning spaces.– …the more eyes on a problem, the greater
chance for a solution.• Affordability: students can’t afford
textbooks• Self-interest: good things happen
when I share• It’s a social justice issue: everyone
should have the right to access digital knowledge.
Why is “Open” Important?
• OpenLearn (UK)
• OCW – MIT (MIT HS)– China Open Resources for Education has
translated 109 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese.
• Rice Connexions
(a few) Open Content Repositories
Open Education Goal: increase access and completion by providing high quality, affordable, openly licensed educational resources.
Open Education
http://techplan.sbctc.edu
“We will cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”
But using open educational resources – and contributing to
them – requires significant change in the culture of higher education. It requires thinking about content as a common resource that raises all boats
when shared. (p.11)
• Open Course Library– designing and sharing 81 high
enrollment, gatekeeper courses– for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online
delivery– to improve course completion rates– lower textbook costs for students (<$30)– provide new resources for faculty to use
in their courses– for our college system to fully engage the
global open educational resources discussion.
Open Education
• 81 courses = 411,133 enrollments / year• 411,133 enrollments x $100 textbook =
$41M+ in textbook costs / student debt per year
• Limit on textbook costs in redesigned courses is $30.
• If courses are adopted by 25% of the sections in the system (faculty decision), the savings to students will be $7.2M per year.
• Savings increase with increased adoptions and/or when courses use free, open textbooks.
Open Education
• All digital software, educational resources and knowledge produced through competitive grants, offered through and/or managed by the SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons Attribution License.
New State Board “Open” Policy
What about Textbooks?
The high cost of textbooks has reduced Kentucky citizens’ access to higher education.
Full-time students spend approximately $1,000 on textbooks every year.
College Board Report: Trends in College Pricing (2007)
• …the current Higher Education textbook market is estimated at $8.2 billion, and is expected to reach in excess of $9 billion by 2014.
Total market size based on Eduventures Textbook Market Study and the National Association of College Stores, 2009.
Global Trends
Total market size based on Eduventures Textbook Market Study and the National Association of College Stores, 2009.
English Composition I
• 47,000+ enrollments / year
• x $100 textbook
• = $4.7+ Million every year
Print, warehouse, and ship a new book for every student
The Old Economics
Upload one copy, and everyone uses it simultaneously
Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free”
The New Economics
• 2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
• The College Board reported that for the 2007 through 2008 academic years each student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies…
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
• The gross margin on new college textbooks is currently 22.7 percent according to the National Association of College Stores.
http://www.nacs.org/public/research/margins.asp
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
May, 2007: Dept of Ed.
http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP
Downloadable version: $77.50
Downloadable & online versions: FREE
Printed bound version: $141.95 new $110.25 used
Printed bound version: $31.98 new
Comparison of Statistics Textbooks
OER Grants?
• The US DOE and DOL will provide $2 Billion (over 4 years) for open educational training and education programs at community colleges.–$2.5M+ per grant
Open Education
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently launched the
“Next Gen Learning Challenges” grant: http://www.nextgenlearning.com
Open Education
• We must get rid of our “not invented here” attitude regarding others’ content–move to: "proudly borrowed from
there"
• Content is not a strategic advantage
• Nor can we (or our students) afford it
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What Happens if we Don’t Change?
NEW HE Models are En Route
• What are the kinds of decisions that will lead you to optimal use of technologies, content and talent to support student achievement for all Kentuckians?
So what’s next?
• What would happen to the quality of curriculum if all system digital content was shared and course (re)design was data driven?
• How can you use technologies and shared content to significantly increase completion rates?
Questions
• Pilot Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative courses… (article)
• Cost to Colleges / Students = $0
Questions
• OLI Research Results:– OLI students completed course in half
the time with half the number of in-person meetings
– Accelerated learning study (Statistics): 33% more content, learning gain in standardized test 13% OLI vs 2% in traditional face-to-face class.
– OLI Online vs. traditional. OLI 99% completion rate vs 41% completion rate traditional.
Questions
Lovett, M., Meyer, O., & Thille, C. (2008). The Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the effectiveness of the OLI statistics course in accelerating student learning. Journal of Interactive Media in Education.
• If you had free, openly licensed textbooks, how much money would you save students and state financial aid?
• see California Governor's moves in free, open K-12 textbooks
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• What if all state funded educational content was open access?
• What kind of efficiencies could KY higher education yield?
• Simple idea: public access to publicly funded educational materials. – NIH & DOE are leading the federal
government to do just that.
Questions
What do you think?
Dr. Cable GreenDirector of eLearning & Open
EducationSBCTC
twitter: cgreenblog.oer.sbctc.edu
