Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely available for use, with some rights reserved. OERs include textbooks, lesson plans, videos, tests, and other educational materials. The document discusses how OERs can help reduce the rising costs of textbooks for students, which can negatively impact their academic success. Studies cited show that students who use open textbooks perform equally as well on exams as those using traditional textbooks, view OERs positively, and believe they are worth a lower price than commercial textbooks. OERs have the potential to increase access to education and student success.

1. OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

2. What are Open Educational
Resources?
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are
teaching, learning, and research resources
released under an open license that permits
their free use and repurposing by others. OERs
can be textbooks, full courses, lesson plans,
videos, tests, software, or any other tool,
material, or technique that supports access to
knowledge.
Definition from SPARC: the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition

3. The framework, which will be freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC
BY), was designed by Lumen Learning as the 5Rs

4. This work by D'Arcy Hutchings is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

5. Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) by Michael Paskevicius , Learning Technologies Application Developer
License: CC Attribution-ShareAlike License

6. Textbook Costs Rise 6% Annually
http://www.slideshare.net/UnaDaly/reducing-costs-for-ict-majors-with-
the-california-affordability-textbook-act-2015-56835222
http://mfeldstein.com/data-to-back-up-concerns-of-textbook-
expenditures-by-first-generation-students/
Course Materials
Fall 2014
Average Cost of
Materials per Unit
1st Gen Students $ 64.39
Other Students $ 55.25

7. How students battled textbook publishers to a draw, Planet Money, NPR, Oct 9, 2014
What is going on here?

8. Textbook Costs vs Student Success
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
Slide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative Commons via http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/
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60%+ do not purchase books at some point due to book cost
35% take fewer courses due to book cost
31% choose not to register for a course due to book cost
23% regularly go without textbooks due to book cost
14% have dropped a course due to book cost
10% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost

9. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Exam 1 Exam 2 Exam 3
PercentCorrect
Traditional
Open Print
Open Digital
9
Exam Performance
Traditional vs. Open Print vs. Open Digital
p < 0.05 ns ns

10. Not at all
1 2 3 4 5 6
Very Much
7
Writing is clear
Writing is engaging
Research examples helpful
Everyday examples relevant
Everyday examples helpful
Adequate number of study aids
Helpful study aids
Note: All differences significant at p < .05
Traditional
Open Print
Open DigitalPerceptions of the Textbook
10

11. 1
Very Poor
2
Below Average
3
Average
4
Above Average
5
Excellent
Overall, how would you rate the quality of your
textbook?
TRADITIONAL 3.54
OPEN PRINT
OPEN DIGITAL
3.90
3.73
What do you think would be a fair price for your textbook?
$53.51
$49.90
$47.68
Traditional:
Open Print:
Open Digital:
ns
Note:
Traditional Print
costs $100+
p < .05
Traditional
Open Print
Open Digital
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BC Campus Presentation during CCCOER May 11 Webinar: 3 Faculty Perpectives on OER Adoption
License: CC Attribution License

13. OERs can be
hard to find
That’s
where I can
help!
https://sites.google.com
/site/buttebiology/