This presentation was provided by Ashley Miller of Ohio State University during the NISO Virtual Conference, Opening Up Education, held on April 19, 2017.

1. Overview and Case Studies
Affordable
Learning Exchange

2. ALX
CORE
PARTNERS
• University Center for the
Advancement of
Teaching
• University Libraries
• Office of Distance
Education and eLearning
• Undergraduate Student
Government

3. 20/20 Vision

4. OPEN
FIRST
• OER = Open Educational
Resources
• Textbooks, courseware,
learning objects, more
• Open licenses are built
for sharing, remixing

5. CURRENT
STATE
• ’16-’17: 17 projects
• ‘17-’18: 13 projects
• 30 projects, 15
departments across
3 campuses

6. CURRENT
STATE
Savings
• $1M (cohort 1)
• $400K (cohort 2)
By Spring 2018
• $3M, direct impact to
12,000 students

7. CURRENT
STATE
Our grants
program is on
target to save
$10 MILLION
BY 2020

8. On the Columbus campus:
• 81% apply for federal aid
• 26% qualify for the Pell Grant
WHY TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILITY?

9. WHY TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILITY?

10. THE POWER OF OPEN
• Creative problem-solving
• Instructor-student
engagement
• Collaboration and
evolution
• Transformed classrooms
Image from Flickr CC-BY University of Liverpool Faculty of Health and Life Science

11. AFFORDABILITY = OPTIONS
Hundreds of
high-quality, peer-review
and collaboratively authored
open textbooks
available, with
constant growth.

12. There is at least one free,
open alternative textbook
for 16 of our top 20 courses.
AFFORDABILITY = OPTIONS

13. OUTCOMES
Only 7.3% will not consider using OER

14. OUTCOMES

15. CASE STUDY: MOLGEN 5300
• Journal articles
• Impact to lecture
• Student feedback and new
research requires agility
and flexibility

16. CASE STUDY: ENGR 2367
• Collaborative authoring
• Pressbooks
• Workflow
• Challenges: peer review,
coordinating ongoing changes
if project leaders leave OSU

17. CASE STUDY: ECON 2002
• Huge impact
• Open textbook use
complicated by test bank
• Massive savings, even
though we didn’t make
it to $0

18. CONTENT
CAMP
• 3 disciplines
• April-August pilot
• Unizin and Big 10
Academic Alliance

19. STUDENT FEEDBACK
• Focus groups at 4
campuses
• Dissatisfaction with
textbooks in general
• Bundled resources

20. CONTENT CAMP - BASICS
• Collaborative assessment
• Goal of 1,000 questions per discipline
• 5 contributors per team
• Pilot includes Macroeconomics, Medical
Biology, Sociology
• Ready for use in Fall 2017

21. CUSTOM AUTHORING TOOL

22. TOOL REQUIREMENTS
• Support various workflows – writer,
reviewer and user
• Psychometrics
• Metadata
• “Shopping Cart” functionality

23. CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT

24. FINANCIAL SUPPORT
• Stipend for team leaders and
contributors: $3,000K, $1,200K
• Shared between OSU and
home campus
• Modeling future grants

25. • Team recruitment
• Leads are hard at work on course
objectives
• Calls scheduled and event booked
• Tool development
OUR PROGRESS … SO FAR

26. • Subject-specific needs
• Cast a wide net
• No tool will deliver exactly the experience
we’d imagined
• Iterative process (we learn this one again
and again!)
LESSONS LEARNED … SO FAR!

27. LEARN MORE
affordablelearning.osu.edu

28. THANK YOU!
Ashley Miller (.6275)
Office of Distance Education and eLearning
affordablelearning.osu.edu
#alxosu