Open Educational Resources : in 10 min… Cable Green eLearning Director

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Yes… We Really are Networked… seamless connection of people, resources & knowledge digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for collaboration outsourcing Anyone notice our global economy?

seamless connection of people, resources & knowledge

digitization of content

mobile, personal

global platform for collaboration

outsourcing

Anyone notice our global economy?

"According to an IBM study, by 2010, the amount of digital information in the world will double every 11 hours."

And we can make all of our “ digital stuff” available to all people… and most of it will get used... by someone.

“ Long Tail” of Publishing long tail $ Harry Potter Hyper-geometric partial differential equations

http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart We All Get to Participate

My Point? A Digital, Networked World Changes the Rules of the Game

Definition of OER Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

The Old Economics Print, warehouse, and ship a new book for every student http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2780164461/

The New Economics Upload one copy, and everyone uses it simultaneously http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/ Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free”

software textbooks music

Textbook 2.0 modular authored by community continuously updated personalized on assembly never out-of-print published on demand low cost ex: 600-page textbook for $32, not $132

modular

authored by community

continuously updated

personalized on assembly

never out-of-print

published on demand

low cost ex: 600-page textbook for $32, not $132

Why do we Need Open Textbooks? 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

2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades

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

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…

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

The gross margin on new college textbooks is currently 22.7 percent according to the National Association of College Stores .

May, 2007: Dept of Ed.

http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf

http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks in community college courses cccoer.wordpress.com

Community College Open Textbook Project Goal Identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open Textbooks for community college students Reduce the cost of textbooks!

Comparison of Statistics 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

Click the Green Check if your college teaches “Introductory Statistics”

Click the Green Check if your college teaches “Introductory Statistics”

General Physics 600 pages New $179.00 Used $125.00

Click the Green Check if your school teaches “Introductory Physics”

Click the Green Check if your school teaches “Introductory Physics”

Click the Green Check if your school teaches Elementary Algebra

Click the Green Check if your school teaches Elementary Algebra

Do you want to go through the rest of your general education courses?

Do you want to go through the rest of your general education courses?

Open Textbook Adoption Locate open textbooks for consideration Evaluate each textbook for selection Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook Disseminate in print and digital formats http://emharrington.com/rex/images/adoptadog/Adopt_Me.jpg

Locate open textbooks for consideration

Evaluate each textbook for selection

Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook

Disseminate in print and digital formats

Locate Open Textbooks for Consideration MERLOT Connexions Wikibooks OER Commons Global Text Project http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg

MERLOT

Connexions

Wikibooks

OER Commons

Global Text Project

Evaluate Each Textbook Quality Accessibility Cultural relevance Currency Authority of Source Reading level Depth and scope Quality and Accuracy Articulation

Quality

Accessibility

Cultural relevance

Currency

Authority of Source

Reading level

Depth and scope

Quality and Accuracy

Articulation

Customize, Remix, and Organize

Disseminate Open Textbooks Digital formats Printed format Campus bookstore Campus print-shop services Proprietary services http://images.lexcycle.com/screenshots/feedbooks_library.jpg

Digital formats

Printed format

Campus bookstore

Campus print-shop services

Proprietary services

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Why so urgent? Consider One High Enrollment Course: English Composition I 37,226 enrollments / year X $100 textbook = $3.7 Million + (cost to students) What if we looked at 100, 200, 300 high enrollment courses? http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg

Consider One High Enrollment Course:

English Composition I

37,226 enrollments / year

X $100 textbook

= $3.7 Million + (cost to students)

What if we looked at 100, 200, 300 high enrollment courses?

Are there really Open Educational Resources on the web?

Are there really Open Educational Resources on the web?

“ Lenses” @ Rice Connexions social software for quality control cnx.org/lenses/ johnDoe univ.edu/cnx IEEE.org/cnx

social software for quality control

What Happens if we Don’t Change? Google, Amazon, Apple, Open Source, Open Content, Open Textbooks… Higher Education Functional Possibilities Time Harder to catch-up … Or even understand.

How is the fiscal health of your local newspaper ?

So…. People and content are connected globally Digital, online content is growing exponentially Digital Stuff we produce is used by someone Someone else can host our IT, so we can focus People and Colleges are sharing their content Everyone can participate New models are emerging that leverage these trends – and they will be our direct competition What are the possibilities? What will students expect from our Colleges?

So….

People and content are connected globally

Digital, online content is growing exponentially

Digital Stuff we produce is used by someone

Someone else can host our IT, so we can focus

People and Colleges are sharing their content

Everyone can participate

New models are emerging that leverage these trends – and they will be our direct competition

What are the possibilities?

What will students expect from our Colleges?

Think Big Crazy Ideas…. We could share all of our instructional digital resources including: courses, textbooks and library resources with the world… and, more important , use global digital materials. We could design courses that enable and encourage students to contribute, change, remix course content.

We could share all of our instructional digital resources including: courses, textbooks and library resources with the world… and, more important , use global digital materials.

We could design courses that enable and encourage students to contribute, change, remix course content.

http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu Dr. Cable Green eLearning Director cgreen@sbctc.edu (360) 704-4334 Special thanks to: David Wiley (BYU) and Richard Baraniuk (Rice)