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Introduction to OER
1. An Introduction to
Open Educational Resources
Michelle Reed, Open Education Librarian
https://www.slideshare.net/oelib
2. What We’ll Learn
•Define open educational resources
(OER)
•Identify common motivations for
producing and using OER
•Describe the freedoms and
restrictions of open licenses
•Use advanced search strategies to
locate OER
3. What is the highest price
you’ve paid for course
resources in a single class?
4. What is the highest amount
of money you recall paying
for course resources in a
single semester?
5. $1,230 – 1,390
The average student should
budget
for textbooks and course
materials in 2016-17.
https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-
estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2016-17
10. Coping with the Cost
•Purchase an older edition of the
textbook.
•Delay purchasing the textbook.
•Never purchase the textbook.
•Share a textbook.
•Download a textbook from the web.
Consumer prices for college textbooks increased 88% from January 2006 to July 2016 (compared to 21% for all items). A longer look back shows that textbook costs have risen over three times the rate of inflation since January 1977.
From “How OER Impact Student Success” at http://libguides.uta.edu/utacares/success
From Open Textbook Network Presenter Slides:
“[Textbook prices] have all been going up at a much faster rate than any other consumer product,” said Mark Perry, a finance and business economics professor at the University of Michigan-Flint.
“Anti DRM” by Tom B is licensed CC BY-NC-SA
http://www.theshorthorn.com/news/digital-access-codes-spark-a-bookstore-debate/article_87b838be-4a76-11e8-9d76-e31249915b9a.html
Open = free + permissions
Image is licensed CC-BY by Michelle Reed https://www.flickr.com/photos/oelib/37051477601/
From Open Textbook Network Presenter Slides
Wisconsin HOPE Lab survey found that “44 percent of community college students and 33 percent of state university students said they were dealing with hunger issues, and 49 percent of the former and 32 of the latter reported having housing insecurity.“ 10-13% struggle with homelessness. http://www.telegram.com/news/20180511/state-survey-shows-hunger-homelessness-common-problem-at-public-colleges
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/02/08/513902272/the-number-of-hungry-and-homeless-students-rises-along-with-college-costs
From Open Textbook Network Presenter Slides:
Not that many people know that United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights actually has language embedded within it concerning the importance of equal access to higher education (A26).
You might think of those people around the world, in third world countries, them. But no we are also talking about here in this country, where people who do not have equal access to higher ed.
And we are talking about an issue that is much broader than just textbooks.
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Open Textbook Library:
New hardcover available via Amazon for $33.50; paperback $24.99
The list price for this book (required for Spring 2016) was $249.95 in May 2017.
Fall 2017 – 9 sections of 2305 are offered
Regular capacity =100 students (6 of these)
Combined capacity = 260 (3 of these)
Total students impacted = 1380 * $249.95
Savings estimate for one semester: $344,931
http://libguides.uta.edu/students/MyMav
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"Making Sense of the Spectrum of Rights" was created by Michelle Pacansky-Brock and is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.