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Developing a Culture of Sharing
and Receiving: Open Educational
Resources
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• 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?
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)
What about Textbooks?
The high cost of textbooks has reduced Washington citizens’ access to higher education.
Full-time students spend approximately $1,000 on textbooks every year.
College Board Report: Trends in College Pricing (2007)
English Composition I
• 50,000+ enrollments / year
• x $100 textbook
• = $5+ Million every year
• WA CTC Student Voice Academy
• (1) CUTTING TEXTBOOK COSTS–“The high cost of textbooks is a burden to students….”•Top Issue three years running….
Student Advocacy
Open Education Goal: increase access and completion by providing high quality, affordable, openly licensed educational resources.
Open Education
• 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
Partner with Legislators who care about:
(a) efficient use of state tax dollars &
(b) saving students money.
Legislative Strategy
• SSHB1025• Faculty consider the least costly
practices in assigning course materials, such as adopting the least expensive edition available, adopting free, open textbooks when available, and working with college librarians to put together collections of free online web and library resources, when educational content is comparable as determined by the faculty…
WA Legislation
• SSHB1946 – two big ideas – share technology and share content.
• (v) Methods and open licensing options for effectively sharing digital content including but not limited to: Open courseware, open textbooks, open journals, and open learning objects…
WA Legislation
• Efficient use of public funds to increase student success and access to quality educational materials.
• Everything else (including all existing business models) is secondary.–Read: “Disrupting College…”
NEW Open Policy: Only ONE thing Matters:
• Taxpayer-funded educational resources should be open educational resources.
• Information that is designed, developed and distributed through the generosity of public tax dollars should be accessible to the public that paid for it -- without artificial restrictions and/or limits.
NEW Open Policy: Big Idea is…
• Any [insert your State here] public or private K-20 education institution that receives any state operating, capital or student financial aid funding shall openly license (creative commons attribution licensing) and share, in a common open repository, all instructional resources created in part or in whole with state funding including: courses, textbooks, course packs, lesson plans, syllabi, slides, lecture notes, audio and video, simulations, academic journals, research data, digital labs, and other educational materials.
NEW Open Policy: Possible Policy
• You should get what you paid
for• Public access to publicly funded educational materials
• Buy one, get one (David Wiley)
NEW Open Policy: Slogans
• 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
WA System Conversation:
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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 us to optimal use of technologies, content and talent to support student achievement for all Washingtonians?
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 we use technologies and shared content to significantly increase completion rates?
Questions
• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative courses… (article)
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.
• What if all state funded educational content was open access?
• What kind of efficiencies could higher education yield?
• Simple idea: public access to publicly funded educational materials. – NIH & DOE are leading the federal
government to do just that.
Questions
• $2 Billion Department of Labor Grant
• All $2B of programs / courses produced must be openly licensed (CC BY)– WA Colleges can download, modify and
use any of it!
• Simple idea: public access to publicly funded educational materials.
Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College andCareer Training Grants Program
Dr. Cable GreenDirector of eLearning & Open
EducationSBCTC
twitter: cgreenblog.oer.sbctc.edu