David Wiley, DeLaina Tonks, Sarah Weston, Ashley Webb Lumen Learning

1. A Preliminary Explora0on of the
Rela0onships Between Student-
Created OER, Sustainability, and
Student Success at the Secondary
Level
David Wiley, DeLaina Tonks,
Sarah Weston, and Ashley Webb

2. Unless otherwise noted
this presenta0on is licensed CC BY 4.0

3. openedgroup.org

4. Costs
• $91 average textbook cost for US CC students
• 94% lower textbook costs when using OER
• ~ $5 print on demand textbooks
• + $100k tui0on revenue by lowering drop rate
Outcomes
• 6% higher course throughput rates
• 2.15 credits higher enrollment intensity
• Same or beVer performance on state
standardized tests (K-12)
Uses
• Differences in student outcomes between
faculty adapters and adopters of OER
Percep/ons • Original survey work and literature reviews
COUP Framework

5. impact.lumenlearning.com

6. Open Educa0on
Open Educa0onal
Prac0ces
Open
Pedagogy

7. Open Pedagogy: What?
Open pedagogy is that set of teaching
and learning prac0ces only possible
or prac0cal in the context of the 5R
permissions characteris0c of open
educa0onal resources.

8. Open Pedagogy: Why?
1. We learn by the things we do.
2. The permissions granted by open licenses
make it prac0cal and legal for us to
do new things.
3. The ability to do new things will likely lead
to new kinds of learning.

9. Open Pedagogy: Why?
Learning by making… Other learners benefit from…
in private
Nothing
in public
Ideas expressed in the ar0fact
in the open Ideas expressed in the ar0fact
AND the ar0fact itself

10. Open Pedagogy: Why?
1. Our current model of producing OER is
unsustainable (e.g., $500k - $1M / textbook).
2. In the US alone, undergraduates spend about
40M hours per year on homework that is
mostly thrown away.
3. Can students sustainably create OER that
supports learning by other students?

12. Online, public,
charter
school:
➢ Opened in 2009
as Open High
School of Utah
➢ 7-12 grades
➢ 575 full-time
students
➢ 200 part-time
students
CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

13. Mission:
➢ Student-centered
➢ Innovative
technology
➢ Service learning
➢ Personal
responsibility
CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

14. OER
curriculum:
➢ Standards-
aligned
➢ Teacher-created
➢ Student-
supported
➢ 98% OER
➢ Publicly released
CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

15. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

16. OER that is
assembled
and used
by the
students
with a
teacher as
the guide.

17. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

18. CC by http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5538035618/

19. Traditional
OER
vs.
Next Gen
OER
CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

20. Next Gen
OER
Examples
CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

21. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy
Guided Notes/Study Guides
Student Hacks Tutorials
Review Videos Reteaching
Review Games Creative Commons

22. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

23. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

24. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

25. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

26. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy
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27. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

28. CC-BY MountainHeightsAcademy

30. Research Context
• 181 middle and high school students
• Online, public, charter school with a
commitment to OER
• Course on Digital Photography
IRRODL (in press)

31. Methodology
• Post-hoc design
• Students were invited to create / remix
open tutorials, study guides, and games
• Extra credit or TA credit
• From no to 5-10% student-created OER over
four years
• Compare student grades on course
assignments
IRRODL (in press)

32. IRRODL (in press)

33. Call to Action:
Involve students in OER creation