Presentation at Guelph on October 24, 2017.

1. Advancing Open Education
at Guelph
Brady Yano
Assistant Director of Open Education, SPARC
@bradyyano
24/10/2017 | Guelph, Ontario

2. slideshare.net/bradyyano

3. Advanced Ed is
important

4. Advanced Ed is
expensive

5. Source: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/160907/cg-a001-eng.htm

6. What about
textbook costs?

7. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/freshman-year/college-textbook-prices-have-risen-812-
percent-1978-n399926

8. Average Estimated
Undergraduate Budgets, 2016-17
Source: https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-
tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2016-17
Books & Supplies = $1,230

9. Source: https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/studentfinance/aid/student_budget
Average Estimated
Undergraduate Budget at Guelph,
2016-17

12. Automatic
Purchasing
Programs

13. Source: https://giphy.com/gifs/deathly-hallows-6KEloI5Q4LAkg

14. Market Failure

15. Market Failure
5 major
publishers
hold nearly
90% of the
market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch

16. Students are
captives, not
consumers

17. 2 in 3
Students say they decided against
buying a textbook because the
cost is too high
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch

18. 1 in 2
Students say they have at some
point taken fewer courses due
to the cost of textbooks
Source: Florida Virtual Campus

19. <1 in 2
Students purchase a current
edition of their textbook
Source: Book Industry Study Group

20. We can do better

21. OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES

22. Hewlett Foundation OER 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”

23. OPEN = Free + Reuse Rights
• Revise
• Reuse
• Remix
• Retain
• Redistribute

24. “some rights reserved”
www.creativecommons.org

25. most
open
least
open
OER

26. Where can I find
OER?

29. • Higher or equivalent grades
• Higher average credit load
• Higher or equivalent completion rates

30. Putting Open
into action

32. “I wanted my students to gain
hands on experience
managing a project… So I asked
my students to engage in a
very large scale revise/remix
project.”
- David Wiley

33. #textbookbrokeBC

36. Source: https://opentextbc.ca/studenttoolkit/

37. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/147990733@N07/32176035504/in/photolist-jL8wfm-R2hAmQ-
YYZPuw

40. @bradyyano/ @SPARC_NA
sparcopen.org