OER: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, Improving Efficacy (#UNTOA16)

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reducing costs
expanding access
improving efficacy
nicole allen SPARC
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noted...
OER:
#UNTOA16 | 5/20/16 | University of North Texas

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higher ed is
important

higher ed is
expensive

Source: CNN Money

$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

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

Cost Factors:
Tuition and Fees
Room and Board
Transportation
Books and Supplies
Other Expenses
Cost Factors:
Books and Supplies

Figure 1: Estimated Increases in New College Textbook Prices, College Tuition and
Fees, and Overall Consumer Price Inflation, 2002 to 2012
prices grew by 28 percent.
Source: GAO

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

“the straw that broke the
camel’s back”

Market Failure

students are
captives, not
consumers

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

Market Failure
Source: NACS.org

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

1 in 2
Students say they have at some point
taken fewer courses due to the cost of
textbooks
Source: Florida Virtual Campus

<1 in 2
Students purchase a current
edition of their textbook
Source: Book Industry Study Group

“Some of the e-book slump amounts to chickens coming
home to roost for traditional publishers. They have been
fighting to keep e-book prices high — to the point where
they engaged in industry-wide collusion with Apple in an
attempt to do so […] Is it really such a surprise that
higher prices lead to people buying fewer e-books?”

“More students drop out of the Electronic
Classroom of Tomorrow or fail to finish high
school within four years than at any other
school in the country, while companies tied to
its founder have been paid millions.”

students can’t learn from
materials
they can’t afford

we can do better.

OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES

OPEN
EDUCATION
RESOURCES

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

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 licensing system
www.creativecommons.org

most
open
least
open
OER

how is OER
created?

ocw.mit.edu

oercommons.org

openstaxcollege.org

openbookpublishers.org

plos.org

oli.cmu.edu

skillscommons.org

how is OER
being used?

open.umn.edu

phet.colorado.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.

pm4id.org

Supporting Adoption
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Percentage passing with C or better
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10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
Spring 2011
No OER
Spring 2013
All OER
n=2,842
About Lumen Lear
Open Educational Resources represent a
and learners, while at the same time imp
unsure what to do to help their institution
This is where Lumen enters the picture.
Co-founded by open education visionary
Lumen is dedicated to facilitating broad,
After years of pioneering work in open ed
Generation Learning Challenges grant-fu
textbooks with OER in community colleg
50% and improving student success rate
resulted in moving the cost of required te
10% compared to student performance in
You can read more about the Kaleidosco
Adding this concrete proof to the body of
help more educational institutions and st
Lumen helps institutional leaders and fac
! Finding quality content and mapp
around the country to review and agg
into Open Courses that match gener
course frameworks online. This proc
individual or institution to download a
! Incorporating OER into academic
consulting services to help institution
sense to introduce OER into courses
Source: Lumen Learning

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

what can
you do?

(1) Start with the low
hanging fruit

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

… and remember all fruit
falls eventually
(credit: Quill West)

(2) Encourage sharing
by people who
want to share

Award winning statistics text

(3) Support faculty to
adopt, adapt, and
create OER

lumenlearning.com

Libraries & OER Forum
LibOER.org
#LibOER

(4) Make “open” your
mission

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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