2014-03-26 Libraries & Open Educational Resources (#NERCOMP14)
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Libraries & Open
Educational
Resources
Nicole Allen
Director of Open Education, SPARC
NERCOMP Annual Conference
(#NERCOMP14)
March 26, 2014 Providence, RI
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SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition, is an
international alliance of academic and research
libraries working to create a more open system of
scholarly communication.
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http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368
Figure 1: Estimated Increases in New College Textbook Prices, College Tuition and
Fees, and Overall Consumer Price Inflation, 2002 to 2012
prices grew by 28 percent.
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These price increases occurred from December 1986 to December 2004.
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“65% of students said that they
had decided against buying a
textbook because it was too
expensive… 94% were
concerned that doing so would
hurt their grade.”
-- 2014 report by U.S. PIRG
http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/sp/fixing-broken-textbook-market
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Open Educational Resources
(OER) are textbooks and
other academic materials that
are published online for
everyone to use, adapt and
share freely
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Open License
Amends the default “All Rights
Reserved” terms of copyright to
“Some Rights Reserved,”
granting blanket permission in
advance to everyone to use the
material
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Four “R’s” of
OpenReuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute
(With attribution to the author)
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Open Textbooks
• Free, online, accessible to all
students starting day one of the
course
• Available in many formats
including online, PDF and print
($20-40)
• Openly licensed and adaptable by
instructors
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Open Textbook
(Example)
• Free online
• Free PDF
• Free ePub
• Print $49.73
• Instructor can adapt
and distribute
http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics
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OpenCourseWare
• Teaching and learning materials
made available under an open
license and presented in a course
format
• 200+ institutions
• 30,000 modules
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
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OER Repositories
• Connexions: http://cnx.org
• OER Commons:
http://www.oercommons.org
• Open Textbook Library:
http://open.umn.edu
• Many more…
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Free, immediat
e online access
to research
articles
coupled with
full reuse rights
Open Access Articles
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Barriers for OER
• Awareness of OER as an option
• Discovery of appropriate OER
• Evaluating the quality of OER
• Logistics of adopting OER
• Sustainable publishing of OER
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Open Education Initiative
• Call for applications from faculty for
mini-grants
• Two one-hour workshops reviewing
OER and other low-cost resources
• Consultation sessions with librarians
and library partners
• Adoption of OER & low cost materials
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Open Education Initiative
• 30 faculty participants
• 44 courses
• $46,000 invested, $700,000+ saved
by 5000+ students
• Faculty said 4.36 on a scale of 5
“Student performance improved
compared to past semesters when a
traditional textbook was used”
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Similar Projects
• Temple University
• UCLA
• Kansas State University
• University of Oklahoma
• Tacoma Community College
• More…
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Digital Coursepack Pilot
• Began to support an iPad project and specific
classes/instructors (Fall 2012).
• Expanded to include a variety of campus
partners (Copyright Permissions, Bookstore).
• Includes a variety of content types.
• Integrated into Moodle (CMS) environment.
• Support services developing around open
content and other alternative course content.
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Oregon State University
• Pilot program that facilitates the
development of open access textbooks
• Collaboration between OSU
Libraries, OSU Press and OSU Extended
Campus
• Publication of the first four open textbooks
will take place in 2014-2015
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Oregon State University
• Each will be made available in four free
digital formats - HTML, PDF, iBooks &
ePub
• Print-on-demand through OSU Press
• Authors will receive royalties on print-on-
demand sales and a $5,000-$15,000
budget transfer
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Oregon State University
• First open textbook was developed from an
existing OSU Press book as part of this project
• “Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific
Northwest” by Robert S. Yeats
• Available
at:http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/oer/Earthquake
.pdf
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Barriers for OER
• Awareness of OER as an option
• Discovery of appropriate OER
• Evaluating the quality of OER
• Logistics of adopting OER
• Sustainable publishing of OER
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Libraries transformed the
conversation around
access to research, they
can do the same for
learning materials
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Libraries & OER Forum
Public discussion list intended for
academic and research librarians
interested in OER.
Sign up:
http://www.sparc.arl.org/resource/sparc
-libraries-oer-forum
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OER Campus Project List
Resource describing library initiatives
to advance OER, for release in April.
Add your campus:
http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/oer/cam
pus-project-form
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OER Campus Tour
SPARC staff will be traveling across the
country to educate librarians, students
and others about OER.
Interested?
nicole@sparc.arl.org
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Open Education 2014
• Annual OER conference
• Nov 19-21, 2014, Washington, DC
• Track dedicated to Libraries & OER
Learn more:
http://www.openedconference.org
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New England OER
Summit
• Wednesday April 23, 2014 10am-3pm
• Shrewsbury, MA
• Keynote: Kim Thanos, Lumen
Learning
• http://bit.ly/newenglandoersummit
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Other Resources
http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources
http://www.sparc.arl.org/membership
Nicole Allen
nicole@sparc.arl.org
401-484-8104
@txtbks
Editor's Notes
300BC Library of AlexandriaCharged with collecting the world’s knowledgeSent Scholars all over the known world to copy books on scrolls of papyrus
Throughout the middle ages, libraries primarily at Monistaries and Cathedrals
Books still had to be written painstakingly by hand
So incredibly expensive to produceThat early universities did what were called dictationsWhere the scholar would slowly read the bookAnd others would copy it down
And often times in libraries books were chained to desks because they were so valuable
15thcentury Gutenberg invented the printing pressDramatically reduced the cost of booksMade it possible for many copies to be produced
And as books proliferated the challenge shifted from cost to finding ways for people to access themAnd that’s the role that libraries performedBut access was still limited by the physical form of a bookIf one person checked it out, others couldn’t have access to it
And with the advent of digital technology everything changedBecause it separates the knowledge from the physical form it takesIt is possible for many people to read a single book at onceAnd the cost of doing so drops effectively to zeroLiterally possible to educate the entire world
Cost of textbooks rising rapidly82%$1200
Same thing happening for scholarly journalsLibrarians in the crowd probably recognize this graph from your own institution
Need to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the Internet, and all it entails to come up a with a vision for a new system that better serves scholarship and research. If we could create, from the ground floor up, the ideal system, what would it look like?
That’s the idea behind Open Access. Vision of an ultimate end game that would do just that.
That’s the idea behind Open Access. Vision of an ultimate end game that would do just that.