A workshop on OER, Open Education and Open Access for ESU

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educational
resources
Joe McArthur
(Joe@righttoresearch.org)
Except where otherwise
noted...
open
This presentation was largely adapted from
one created by Nicole Allen with her slides
indicated as such.

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bit.ly/
www.sparc.arl.org
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Launched in Summer 2009.
Built around the Student Statement
on the Right to Research: access to
research is a student right
International alliance of 95 graduate &
undergraduate student organizations,
representing nearly 7 million students
We Educate + Advocate for Open Access

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“Mission
before
hygiene”

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Today’s workshop
• Your experience
• An Open approach
• What you can do

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Students can’t learn
from materials
they can’t afford
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Market Failure
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We can do better.
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OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
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Hewlett Foundation Definition:
“OER are teaching, learning, and
research resources that reside in the
public domain or are released under an
intellectual property license that permits
their free use and repurposing by
others”
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Hewlett Foundation Definition:
“OER are teaching, learning, and
research resources that reside in the
public domain or are released under an
intellectual property license that permits
their free use and repurposing by
others”
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Free + 5R Permissions
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Free + 5R Permissions
• Retain
• Reuse
• Revise
• Remix
• Redistribute
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5R Permissions allow
• Translation
• Adaption
• Updating
• Printing
• Accessibility
• Equality
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How is OER being
created?
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ocw.mit.edu
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oercommons.org
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openstaxcollege.org
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open.umn.edu
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How are OER
being used?
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Open Textbook (Example)
• Free online
• Free PDF
• Free ePub
• Print $49.73
• Instructor can adapt
and distribute
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Source: Pierce College
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pm4id.org
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Supporting Adoption
Developmental Math Results"
Percentage passing with C or better
48.40%
60.18%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
Spring 2011
No OER
Spring 2013
All OER
n=2,842
About Lumen Lear
Open Educational Resources represent a
and learners, while at the same time imp
unsure what to do to help their institution
This is where Lumen enters the picture.
Co-founded by open education visionary
Lumen is dedicated to facilitating broad,
After years of pioneering work in open ed
Generation Learning Challenges grant-fu
textbooks with OER in community colleg
50% and improving student success rate
resulted in moving the cost of required te
10% compared to student performance in
You can read more about the Kaleidosco
Adding this concrete proof to the body of
help more educational institutions and st
Lumen helps institutional leaders and fac
! Finding quality content and mapp
around the country to review and agg
into Open Courses that match gener
course frameworks online. This proc
individual or institution to download a
! Incorporating OER into academic
consulting services to help institution
sense to introduce OER into courses
Source: Lumen Learning
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impact.lumenlearning.com

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impact.lumenlearning.com

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OPEN
EDUCATION
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MOOCs
Open Pedagogy
Tests
Presentations
Courseware
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The Internet allows us
to transform education.
Let’s take that chance.

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What about when
teaching becomes
research focused?

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$14,848
Prices generated with Elsevier’s pricing tool, for an institutional subscription with more than 5 users for an
academic institution in the US with 10,001-25,000 FTEs. Pricing tool URL:
http://www.myelsevier.com/browse/product_details.jsp?productId=ELS_AG_BS-PRD-00942#

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$39,082
Robert Darnton, “The Library: Three Jeremiads,” New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads

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Average journal price in Chemistry:
Biology
= $2,520
Geography
= $1,308
Physics
= $3,870
= $4,215
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Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey
“Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,
April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_

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Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey
“Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,
April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_
www.sparc.arl.org

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-25%
25%
75%
125%
175%
225%
275%
325%
375%
425%
1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010
%ChangeSince1986
Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.
*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.
Graph 2
Monograph and Serial Costs
in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011* Serial
Expenditures
(+402%)
Monograph
Expenditures
(+71%)
Monographs
Purchased
(10%)

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Publishing obscure academic journals is
that rare thing in the media industry:
“a licence to print money.”
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Publishing is big business…
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Publishing is big business…
39%
Source: “Elsevier STM publishing profits rise to 39%”
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2014/03/elsevier-stm-publishing-profits-rise-to.html
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Is there a reason
publishing should be
this expensive?
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http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200
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80%
of research is
publicly
funded
Source: “Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into
shares, HSBC Global Research,” February 11, 2013:
https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF
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www.sparc.arl.org

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Free, immediate online access
to scientific & scholarly articles
with full reuse rights
Budapest Open Access Initiative
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Two paths to Open Access
Self-
archiving
Open Access
Journals
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1. Publish in an open-access journal
X >10,000
Source: Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.org
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X 2,000
2. Publish (most) anywhere,
deposit into an open-access repository
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“The Open Access movement which
the meeting helped spawn now
looks unstoppable.”
www.righttoresearch.org

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How can you make
openness the
future of
education?

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At this event

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“The opposite of
Open isn’t closed, it’s
broken”

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When you’re thinking
digital, think open.

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In the coming weeks

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www.opencon2016.org | @open_con
Slide credit: Nicole Allen

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Opencon2016.org/ESU

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Student gov handbook

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In the coming months

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Sign the updated
student statement

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Further Resources
• SPARC
• PIRGs
• Centrum
• OER Impact Hub
• Me (Joe@righttoresearch.org)