Opportunities Enabled by Digital Texts
• Broaden access through free and open digital textbooks
• Improve learning with integrated technology and cognitive science
Context
• $1.2T student debt
• $3.2B in financial aid spent on textbooks annually
• 70% of college students forgo buying texts
• 78% of those students believe they will perform worse in the course
• 24% of students take fewer credit hours due to expense
• 50% of community college students use financial aid
MarkPerry,AmericanEnterpriseIns5tute,July2015
OpenStax College Objectives
• Increase access to high-quality educational experiences
• Provide students financial relief
• Increase academic freedom and flexibility for faculty
• Increase persistence and graduation rates
• Spur innovation
OpenStax College Library
Macro-eco- nomics
Principles ofEco-nomics
Principles ofMicro-eco-nomics
Principles of
Psych-ology
Introductory
Stat-istics
Pre-calc-ulus Hist-
ory
U. S.
Impact Since 2012
• 1.6M students in 4,081 courses have saved $155M • Number of students and savings are doubling every year • Significant positive “Return on Investment” for our foundation partners
• 27% of all US degree-granting institutions use
at least one OpenStax text • Sustainable business model (40+ ecosystem partners)
OpenStax Tutor
• Objective: Improve not only access but also learning outcomes
• OpenStax Tutor embeds homework, review questions, and analytics directly into a digital textbook
• Real-time feedback to students and teachers improves and personalizes learning
• Pilots: 400 Houston-area high school students, 12,000 college students
• Generous support from the Gates Foundation, Arnold Foundation, John and Ann Doerr, NSF, DOD, and others
Learning Principles from Cognitive Science
Retrieval practice retrieving information from memory is not a neutral event; rather it changes memory
Spacing distributing practice over time produces better long-term retention than massing practice
Feedback closes the learning feedback loop must be timely
Tour of OpenStax Tutor
• Personalized learning tool designed in conjunction with a “Learning Advisory Team” of high school teachers and college instructors in Spring/Summer 2015
• 25 person years of effort on design and coding
OpenStax Vision
Revolutionize education at all levels: transform the student path to and through college and improve learning and graduation rates
• Access Radically increase the number of students who complete college
• Insight Provide students, teachers, and administrators with “power tools” to enrich and intervene
• Empower teachers and students to take control of their teaching and learning
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