This document discusses open education and reducing the costs of textbooks and course materials through the use of open educational resources (OER). It notes that textbook costs have risen significantly in recent decades and that many students report not purchasing required textbooks or taking fewer courses due to high costs. The document advocates for adopting OER which are freely and openly licensed educational resources that can be revised and redistributed. It describes how OER can be collaboratively created and evolve over time through contributions from students, alumni, and instructors. The document also discusses how open pedagogy focuses on learner-driven and collaborative learning over traditional content and how open access to research can help fulfill the promise of widely disseminating scholarship through digital means.

1. Open Education:
Reducing Costs, Transforming Pedagogy
Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International License
Robin DeRosa
@actualham

2. It’s a Gateway Drug

3. Cable Green, Creative Commons
THE KEYNOTE

4. • Student textbooks cost
about $1,200 per year.
• Students worry more
about paying for books
than they worry about
paying for college.
• Textbook costs have
risen 812% since 1978.
• $1,200 is equal to 12% of
tuition at my university.
Image: CCBY Georgie Pauwels https://flic.kr/p/igHaNo

5. Effects of
Textbook Prices
• 60% of students report not
purchasing a required
textbook because of cost,
and 23% regularly go
without books due to cost
• 50% of students report
taking fewer courses due
to textbook costs
• 14% have dropped a
course and 10% have
withdrawn from a course
due to textbook costs
2012 Survey of 22,000 students,
Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the
12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.
CCBYDagnyMolflic.kr/p/5ksCNP

6. Reuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute
Retain
CCBYSA Breno Trautwein https://flic.kr/p/cAxDUs

7. CreativeCommons

8. Adopt!
It’sFREEandFINE!

9. Square 1: Openly-Licensed Content
(Public Domain Lit Shouldn’t Cost $87)

10. Collaboratively Built:
Alums, Incoming Students, Professor

11. Constantly
Evolving:
Students &
Teachers
Add,
Improve,
Share

12. Multimedia
Contributions

13. Interactive and Public Annotation

14. An Open
“Textbook”
Can Be:
• Interactive
• Collaborative
• Dialogic
• Dynamic
• Empowering
• Contributory
• Current
• Accessible
• Multimedia
• Public
• (Free)

15. Open Education
• Open
Educational
Resources (OER)
• Open Pedagogy
• Open Access to
research

16. Open Pedagogy
• Improves access to education.
• Treats education as a learner-driven
process.
• Stresses community and
collaboration over content.
• Connects the university to the wider
public.

17. Access
• Save money on
textbooks, ok
• But what other
barriers exist
to access?
• Digital divide
• Universal
design
• Trolling,
violence
CCBY Jonathan Brodsky https://flic.kr/p/37z2C2

18. Learner-
Driven
• Learning
Outcomes
• Policies
• Texts
• Assignments
• Feedback &
Grading

19. Content
≠ King
• Rhizomes
• Networks
• Communities
• Collaborations

20. Public
Blogs, PLNs, ePorts
• @gardnercampbell
• @anrikard
• @audreywatters
CCBYSA JusinC http://bit.ly/1W18JBe

21. Personal
Reflective
Portfolio
Portal for sharing
and collaborating

22. What is the Internet FOR, Anyway?
Pre-Med
Sport Performance
Art Therapy
Music Production
Sustainable Food Production
International Business
Weather Journalism
Data Analytics
Veterinary Medicine
Dance Entrepreneurship
Oh yeah….and English!

23. OER Open Pedagogy  Open Access
How does
“open” affect
us as
SCHOLARS?

24. CC BY Cable Green: http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen

25. What Will the
Digital Age
Enable?
Technology allows for
efficient worldwide
dissemination of research
and scholarship. But
closed distribution models
can get in the way. Open
access helps to fulfill the
promise of the digital age.
~Jennifer Jenkins,
Duke University Drawing: CC BY SA http://fav.me/d54zn82

26. CC BY 3.0 US: http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
We Can Do It!
“We can be confident that OA journals are economically
sustainable because the true costs of peer review,
manuscript preparation, and OA dissemination are
considerably lower than the prices we currently pay for
subscription-based journals. There's more than enough
money already committed to the journal-support system.
Moreover, as OA spreads, libraries will realize large
savings from the conversion, cancellation, or demise of
non-OA journals.”
~Peter Suber

27. We Can Do It!

28. How Open is OPEN?

29. call the tweeps
What are the barriers to working OPEN?

31. My evening
• Barriers to open
• Contingent labor and OER
• Privilege and dominance in
open spaces
• Screenshotting tweets
• Embedding tweets
• Exploiting tweeters
• Slideshares and articles
• Conferences
• Skype dates
• Plans for meetups
• Sharing faculty observation
protocols
• Not
• Making
• Powerpoint

32. OPENing…
• Challenge barriers to access. Be
honest and critical.
• Center learners. Be radical and real.
• Facilitate connection. Be a sticky
node, not a gate.
• Share research. Be generous and just.
CCBYSAAntonlobohttp://bit.ly/24g4ZjO

33. Open is a practice, not a panacea.

34. Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International License
Robin DeRosa
@actualham
Helpful hashtags:
#OER
#OpenEd16
#OA & #OpenAccess
#OpenPed & #OpenPedagogy & #OEP
#digped