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LEARNING IS

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“The Polo Analogy”
(Dr. David Wiley @opencontent)

Water Polo

Online education is
another ballgame

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laurentius_de_Voltolina_001.jpg
(public domain)
The Medieval Lecture

The Modern Lecture

The Online Lecture

“A study of edX student habits…
found that certificate-earning
students generally stop watching
videos longer than 6 to 9
minutes.”

The Medieval Textbook

The Modern Textbook

The Online Textbook

Source http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368

2 in 3
Students say they decided against
buying a textbook because the cost is
too high
Source: Student PIRGs

$28,950
Average debt per borrower
for graduating class of 2014
Source: TICAS

$1,000
$3,000
$5,000
$7,000
$9,000
1988199019921994199619982000200220042006200820102012
State Funding
Tuition Revenue
US Public Higher Education
Funding - $/Undergrad FTE
Data source: State Higher Education Officers Association
Slide source: @dernst, adapted under CCBY

Average Estimated Undergraduate
Budgets, 2014-15
Source: College Board
Books & Supplies = $1,225

“the straw that broke the
camel’s back”

$8.8 billion
Annual size of the US higher
education textbook market

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

students are
captives, not
consumers

OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES

Hewlett Foundation 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”

OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES

OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
Free + Reuse Rights
• Retain
• Reuse
• Revise
• Remix
• Redistribute

“some rights reserved”
www.creativecommons.org

use © to enable
free
& open use

most
open
least
open
OER

ocw.mit.edu

openstaxcollege.org

using OER in 1 course per year could
save US students
$1.42
billion

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

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.”
- @opencontent

"This launched us in to a new
direction, allowing us to be
creative and unfettered in
developing course materials that
would meet the needs of the
students at our respective
colleges and that could also
be…freely and widely
distributed.”
Prof. Howard Miller
Mercy College

oli.cmu.edu

The cost of college textbooks has risen 812% since 1978, more
than the rates of inflation, health care, new home prices, and
college tuition.
More and more, college students are unable to afford their
textbooks, and as many as 70% of students have reported
avoiding buying at least one textbook for their courses. Not
surprisingly, these students do not do as well academically.
As of May 2013, if a TCC student purchased all of the textbooks
required for a business administration degree, that student would
spend $3,678.95 on new books. While used textbooks may lower
this price, their availability is, at best, uneven.
But the problem with printed textbooks goes beyond financial cost; textbooks “ cost” students and teachers
in other ways as well.
Because textbooks are frequently written for broad audiences in the hopes that they will fill the learning
support needs and be adopted by large numbers of faculty and departments, they are filled with content
and exercises that are superfluous to a specific course’ s learning outcomes. The cost here is in teaching
efficiency and effectiveness.
Fortunately a solution to both problems exists.
Beginning in Fall 2013, TCC became the first college in the U.S. to create an Associate of Science degree
based solely on open educational resources (OER), academically vetted and publicly licensed content. After
Tidewater CommunityCollege
ismakingcollegemoreaffordable.

legally open ✔
practically open
technically open

Baggage

opencon2016.org #opencon

use the internet to do
what it was meant for to
benefit society

Nicole Allen
nicole@sparcopen.org
@txtbks | @sparc_na
www.sparcopen.org

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