These slides accompanied my webinar for Atla, which is available in full here: https://www.atla.com/webinar/open-educational-resources-oers/

1. Open Educational Resources: from the
beginning. Melody Diehl Detar
Instructional Design Librarian
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2. Where does the
conversation start?

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Textbooks CPI
Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

5. “$227 for a rented, used textbook is
ridiculous. I put it on my Christmas
list…”

6. “I had to pay $200 for a digital
download code for a book”

7. “Exploitative! Makes good education a
class issue when it should be available
to everyone”

8. Consequences of high
textbook costs
 Wait to purchase textbooks
 Share a textbook with others
 Purchase an older edition
 Acquire the book illegally
 Avoid purchasing the book altogether

9. https://bit.ly/2E0goei

10. What can textbook
costs impact?
 Student success
 Admissions and retention
 Global scholarship/advancement
 Social justice

11. Textbook access is a
social justice issue.
Colvard, N. B., Watson, C. E., & Park, H. (2018). The impact of open educational resources on various student success metrics.
International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 30(2), 262–276.
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1184998.pdf

12. Defining: (OER)
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in
the public domain or have been released under an intellectual
property license that permits their free use and re-
purposing by others.”
-William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

13. Free + Permissions
Retain
Reuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute
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14. All Rights
Reserved
Some Rights
Reserved
By David Ernst. This slide is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

15. Creative Commons
licensing

18. How can “free” be
good?

19. The next 5 slides by David Ernst, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

24. M O R E O P E N
Access Affordability Spectrum

25. Free + Permissions
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26. Free + Permissions
• Academic freedom
• Localize examples
• Expand the conversation
• Open pedagogy (or, OER-
enabled pedagogy)
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27. Remix an existing OER

28. Curate an open textbook with students

29. Curate an open textbook with students

30. “Why have
students
answer the
questions
when they
can write
them?”
-Rajiv Jhangiani
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31. Benefits of
OERs.
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32. Challenges with
OERs.
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33. Photo by Josh Applegate on Unsplash
Where do OERs fit with
theological librarianship?

34. Where does the
conversation go from
here?

35. Thank you!

36. Let’s Chat!
Melody Diehl Detar
detarm@duq.edu
@melodylynn457
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