Presentation slide for Open Textbook Summit, April 16-17, 2014 by:
Kim Thanos
Co-founder & CEO
kim@lumenlearning.com
David Wiley
Co-founder & Chief Academic Officer
david@lumenlearning.com
2. Topics
WHAT quick review of terms and meaning
WHY issues and scope
HOW lessons learned in adoption
AND THEN the opportunities created
3. OER are 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 and re-purposing by
others.
Open educational resources include full
courses, course
materials, modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and any other
tools, materials, or techniques used to support access
to knowledge.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
4. 5Rs: The Powerful Rights of Open
• Make, own, and control your own copy of
the contentRetain
• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the
contentRevise
• Combine the original or revised content with
other OER to create something newRemix
• Share your copies of the original
content, revisions, or remixes with othersRedistribute
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A Problem Worth Solving
• Costs escalate unchecked
• No concomitant increase in quality
• Impact on student…
Learning
Access
Success
Persistence
Completion
• Impact on faculty…
Control
Effectiveness
Professionalism
6.
7.
8. There is a direct relationship between
textbook costs and student success
60%+ do not purchase textbooks
at some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to
textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a
course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without
textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a course
due to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a
course due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
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Faculty Approaches
BUILD ADAPT ADOPT
• Develop new materials
• Aggregate materials
from high-quality OER
• Create tools and
systems
• Create media
• Share or publish
Similar in scope to writing
a new textbook with many
collaborators.
• Identify high-quality
course or resource
• Create significant
revision
• Remix, aggregate
• Share or publish
Similar in scope to moving
from traditional to fully
online delivery.
• Review open course
• Refine for teaching
approach
• Align with syllabus
• Assign and reference
Similar in scope to using a
new textbook or a major
new edition.
24. Open + Analytics
identifying the weaker parts of your course
+ permissions to fix them
continuous quality improvement
25. Open Pedagogy
What kind of activities can students engage in
with OER / open data / open access articles
that they cannot do otherwise?
26. “Disposable Assignments”
• Students hate doing them
• You hate grading them
• Huge waste of time and energy
• Students see value in doing them
• You see value in grading them
• Actually add value to the world
“Valuable Assignments”
27. From Process to Product
In theory, all assignments have students
engage in valuable processes.
There’s no reason they shouldn’t result in
valuable products.
Recent research (conducted by the Florida Virtual Campus) quantifies the ways high textbook costs affect student persistence and success. More than 60% of students report not having purchase textbooks at some point due to the costNearly a quarter (23%) of students regularly go without textbooks due to their costDue to the high cost of textbooks:35% of students report taking fewer courses31% report not registering for a course14% have dropped a course10% have withdrawn from a courseLink to research source: http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Exec_Sum_Student_Txtbk_Survey.pdf