2014-03-26 libraries & open educational resources (#nercomp14)

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Libraries & Open Educational Resources

Nicole AllenDirector of Open Education,

SPARC

NERCOMP Annual Conference (#NERCOMP14)

March 26, 2014 Providence, RI


SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and

research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.


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http://www.springer.com/us/librarians/journal-price-list




Shouldn’t digital technology solve

this problem?


Of course there are

workarounds….


“65% of students said that they had decided against

buying a textbook because it was too expensive… 94% were concerned that doing so would hurt their grade.”

-- 2014 report by U.S. PIRG

http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/sp/fixing-broken-textbook-market




We need a better solution.


OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES


Open Educational Resources (OER) are textbooks and other

academic materials that are published online for everyone to use, adapt

and share freely


Open LicenseAmends the default “All Rights

Reserved” terms of copyright to “Some Rights Reserved,” granting blanket permission in advance to

everyone to use the material


Four “R’s” of Open

ReuseReviseRemix

Redistribute(With attribution to the author)


Open Textbooks

• Free, online, accessible to all students starting day one of the course

• Available in many formats including online, PDF and print ($20-40)

• Openly licensed and adaptable by instructors


Open Textbook (Example)

• Free online

• Free PDF

• Free ePub

• Print $49.73

• Instructor can adapt and distribute

http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics




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OpenCourseWare

• Teaching and learning materials made available under an open license and presented in a course format

• 200+ institutions

• 30,000 moduleshttp://www.ocwconsortium.org/

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/


OER Repositories

• Connexions: http://cnx.org • OER Commons:

http://www.oercommons.org • Open Textbook Library:

http://open.umn.edu • Many more…

http://cnx.org/

http://www.oercommons.org/

http://open.umn.edu/


Free, immediate

online access to research

articles coupled with

full reuse rights

Open Access Articles


Barriers for OER

• Awareness of OER as an option• Discovery of appropriate OER• Evaluating the quality of OER• Logistics of adopting OER• Sustainable publishing of OER


Libraries & OER


http://guides.library.umass.edu/content.php?pid=87648&sid=4778777




Open Education Initiative

• Call for applications from faculty for mini-grants

• Two one-hour workshops reviewing OER and other low-cost resources

• Consultation sessions with librarians and library partners

• Adoption of OER & low cost materials


Open Education Initiative

• 30 faculty participants• 44 courses• $46,000 invested, $700,000+

saved by 5000+ students• Faculty said 4.36 on a scale of 5

“Student performance improved compared to past semesters when a traditional textbook was used”


Similar Projects

• Temple University• UCLA• Kansas State University• University of Oklahoma• Tacoma Community College• More…


Digital Coursepack Pilot

• Began to support an iPad project and specific classes/instructors (Fall 2012).

• Expanded to include a variety of campus partners (Copyright Permissions, Bookstore).

• Includes a variety of content types.• Integrated into Moodle (CMS)

environment.• Support services developing around open

content and other alternative course content.


Digital Coursepack Pilot


http://open.umn.edu




http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/feb/osu-open-textbook-initiative-aims-reduce-student-costs-enhance-

learning

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/feb/osu-open-textbook-initiative-aims-reduce-student-costs-enhance-learning




Oregon State University

• Pilot program that facilitates the development of open access textbooks

• Collaboration between OSU Libraries, OSU Press and OSU Extended Campus

• Publication of the first four open textbooks will take place in 2014-2015



• Each will be made available in four free digital formats - HTML, PDF, iBooks & ePub

• Print-on-demand through OSU Press

• Authors will receive royalties on print-on-demand sales and a $5,000-$15,000 budget transfer



• First open textbook was developed from an existing OSU Press book as part of this project

• “Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest” by Robert S. Yeats

• Available at:http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/oer/Earthquake.pdf

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/oer/Earthquate.pdf




http://opensuny.org

http://opensuny.org/

http://opensuny.org/


Barriers for OER

• Awareness of OER as an option• Discovery of appropriate OER• Evaluating the quality of OER• Logistics of adopting OER• Sustainable publishing of OER


Libraries transformed the conversation around access to

research, they can do the same for learning

materials


Open Educational Resources


Libraries & OER Forum

Public discussion list intended for academic and research librarians interested in OER.

Sign up: http://www.sparc.arl.org/resource/sparc-libraries-oer-forum

http://www.sparc.arl.org/resource/sparc-libraries-oer-forum




OER Campus Project List

Resource describing library initiatives to advance OER, for release in April.

Add your campus: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/oer/campus-project-form

http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/oer/campus-project-form





OER Campus Tour

SPARC staff will be traveling across the country to educate librarians, students and others about OER.

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


Open Education 2014

• Annual OER conference• Nov 19-21, 2014, Washington,

DC• Track dedicated to Libraries &

OER

Learn more:http://www.openedconference.org

http://www.openedconference.org/


New England OER Summit

• Wednesday April 23, 2014 10am-3pm

• Shrewsbury, MA• Keynote: Kim Thanos, Lumen

Learning• http://bit.ly/

newenglandoersummit

http://bit.ly/newenglandoersummit

http://bit.ly/newenglandoersummit


Other Resources

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membership

Nicole [email protected]

401-484-8104@txtbks

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