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OER: The 4R Permissions
Sharing and creativity are inherent in OER:
• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the
contentRevise
• Combine the original or revised content with
other OER to create something newRemix
• Share copies of the original content, revisions
or remixes with othersRedistribute
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The Direct Relationship Between
Textbook Costs and Student Success
60%+ do not purchase textbooks at
some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to
textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a
course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without textbooks
due to cost
14% have dropped a course due
to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a course
due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey
by Florida Virtual Campus
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OER to Improve Student Success
1. Eliminate textbook cost as a barrier
2. Drive assessment-driven enhancement of
course designs and materials
3. Connect to a global collaborative community
to share learning and investment
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Arithmetic
Scottsdale CC Workbook + Minilessons
- Workbook aligned with video mini-lessons
- MyOpenMath assignments
NROC Text, original version
- Text, some videos
NROC Text, as remixed by David
- Text and daily handouts/worksheets
- MyOpenMath assignments with embedded videos
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Beginning and Intermediate Algebra
Wallace course (also Kaleidoscope phase 1)
- Very skills-focused approach
- Video lessons with connected questions, separate
practice assignments
Sousa / CK12 courses
- Somewhat more conceptual text
- Overview videos and videos embedded in
MyOpenMath homework
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Precalc / College Algebra / Trig
Lippman/Rasmussen Text
- Text, worksheets/handouts, instructors notes, sample
assessments
- MyOpenMath assignments with embedded videos
- More contextually motivated approach.
- Covers minimal topics currently.
Stitz/Zeager Text
- Text that covers more topics. More mathy approach.
- MyOpenMath assignments in-development
UW Text: Good source of multi-step problems
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Calculus
Guichard (Whitman)
- More mathy approach
Hoffman
- More conceptual approach
- MyOpenMath assignments and a prettier formatting
are in development
Both
- Existing MyOpenMath materials aligned with
commercial texts. Some video embedded questions.
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Quantitative Reasoning
Math in Society
- Topics approach, similar to Tannenbaum & COMAP
- Video playlists for each chapter
- MyOpenMath exercises, quizzes, writing
assignments
- Some in-class activities, quizzes
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Book Topics
• Problem Solving / Quantitative Reasoning
• Voting Theory
• Weighted Voting
• Apportionment
• Fair Division
• Graph Theory
• Scheduling
• Growth Models
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Statistics
OLI
- Well researched and tested
- Conceptual focus
- Embedded interactive questions in text; online only
- Requires using OLI’s platform - may have a $25 cost
- Supplemental MyOpenMath materials
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Statistics
Collaborative Stats (Connexions)
- Traditional ordering and approach. Very lacking in
conceptual development.
OpenIntro
- Straightforward approach. Reasonable conceptual
development. Some odd choices (e.g. using z for
means test when n>30 even when sigma unknown)
Onlinestatbook (Rice)
- Very good conceptual development. Video
presentations. No proportions tests. Light on
examples.
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just to clear up some potential confusion Open does *not equal digital, and *open does not equal free. Perhaps * a Venn diagram would helpThere are free materials online that are not open, and there are open materials that are not online. *
Open materials in Education look like - * open educational resources, * open textbooks, and * open coursesMy interest in open began with * open source software …
open source software - the idea is fascinating. For the end user, * free is often the main driver, but for the techie, * the bigger driver is the ability to study and modify the code. And for the big projects, * there was a community of developers, contributing to the creation of this product, often not because it was their job, but because they cared about the end product being better. By pooling their skills, they could create a better product faster than any one person working alone. To me, this is * the promise of open.
To me, this is the promise of open.The obvious benefit is the cost.
Textbook prices have been increasing much faster than inflation. *
David: Recent research (conducted by the Florida Virtual Campus) quantifies the ways high textbook costs affect student persistence and success. More than 60% of students report not having purchase textbooks at some point due to the costNearly a quarter (23%) of students regularly go without textbooks due to their costDue to the high cost of textbooks:35% of students report taking fewer courses31% report not registering for a course14% have dropped a course10% have withdrawn from a courseLink to research source: http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Exec_Sum_Student_Txtbk_Survey.pdf
Cable Green from Creative Commons puts it this way: Imagine that could produce food with a marginal cost near 0. Should we invest the money to build that food machine? Of course. We have at our hands the ability to build learning materials that can be distributed with a marginal cost near zero – the question is whether we invest the money and time to turn on that learning machine on.
But of course there’s more than cost.
First * there’s the practical matter of broken links. When you link to materials free online, you never know if they might suddenly disappear, or * if the owner might decide to change the material or start charging for it, or change editions on you. Most importantly, * Open gives you the right to make changesIn education, * open means:
In education, open means:- * free of cost - saves students money - * improved access to materials (since they’re usually online)- * flexiblity for the instructor to customize/modify the content, * enabling continuous quality improvement- * ideally, can prompt conversation and collaboration around curriculum in a much richer way than is currently existing
The most obviously useful example of OER is, I suppose, an *open textbook. But there is *more than that. OER can be as fine grained as individual worksheets and handouts, activities, and videos. Being open means we know we’re allowed to adapt and use the materials with our classes.
Open Courseware are efforts to put entire course designs online under open licenses. They typically include *syllabus, *reading assignments, *other learning materials, *homework, and *assessments. These have been around for quite a while.Early open courseware projects, like MIT OCW, were created with the thought that teachers out in the world might use it, but it ended up being students who used it. Honestly, as a teacher, I’ve watched a few videos, but nothing on MIT OCW made me think “gee, I think I’ll take this and start using it as my course.” The Kaleidoscope project, however, takes a directly instructor-focused approach.
Kaleidoscope uses (OER) to improve student success. The project works by using the best of existing OER to reduce textbook costs to $0; use learning analytics analyze assessment, activity and success data to guide faculty members in continually improving the effectiveness of the open resources; supporting faculty within and across institutions to collaborate, share, and build community
ImprovOER: students use materials, analyze the results, and informs improvements
Which allows the creators to explicitly state the permissions they were allowing, The idea of “some rights reserved”You’ll notice a collection of licenses – each provides a different set of permissions. The Attribution license simply requires that attribution to the original creator is retained. The Sharealike license requires any adaptations be shared under the same license – it can’t be made more restrictive. This one is most similar to the “copyleft” license used on a lot of open source software, so I really like this one. The Non-commercial licenses prohibit commercial use, though that can get messy with things like printing books, so I steer clear of that one if I can.These licenses allowed the author to easily indicate that they were OK with others using and adapting their materials without needing to ask permission.
