The document is a statement signed by over 3,000 faculty members expressing support for using open textbooks. It declares the signatories' intent to seek out and consider open textbooks when choosing course materials, and to give preference to low or no-cost educational resources like open textbooks over expensive textbooks when appropriate. It also calls for institutions to provide support for using open textbooks and other open educational resources.
Textbooks and OER’s: Where we’ve been and where we’re going!MSCSA
This presentation will review legislative acton on textbooks, look at the introduction of Open Educational
Resources, and discuss what’s being done now on the issue.
OER Workshop for Coastline College Summer InstituteUna Daly
The Who, What, Why, Where, and How of Finding and Adopting High Quality Open Educational Resources
Join us for an interactive workshop on finding and adopting high-quality open educational resources (OER). The cost of a college education continues to rise dramatically and the high price of textbooks has been identified by students as a major barrier to achieving their academic goals.
Hear from faculty in California and other states who have adopted OER to reduce costs for students and enhance teaching and learning. You’ll get a chance to test drive searching for open textbooks in popular OER repositories and gain an understanding of what makes an effective open educational resource. Finally, we’ll brainstorm how to encourage other stakeholders at your college to support successful OER adoptions.
Bring a laptop or tablet and be prepared for some fun teamwork!
Presenter: Una Daly, director Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.
A panel of Community College leaders from around the country shared their OER Projects at Lansing Community College's OER Summit Day, Sept 18, 015. Panel was moderated by Una Daly, Director of Community College Consortium for OER.
Speakers:
Jeff Janowick, Lansing Community College
Kari Richards, Lansing Community College
Tina Ulrich, Northwestern Michigan Community College
Preston Davis, Northern Virginia Community College
Quill West, Pierce Community College, WA
Lisa Young, Scottsdale Community College, AZ
The results of an Open Textbook Initiative, includes definitions, why open is important, the process of beginning an open textbook initiative at a small university and the results after one academic year.
Strategies to Support Open Educational Resources for Student Success: Case Ex...Robin M. Ashford, MSLIS
This was a shared Educause Connect Portland 2017 session with Cynthia Jimes from ISKME: https://events.educause.edu/educause-connect/2017/portland/agenda/strategies-to-support-open-educational-resources-for-student-success-case-examples-from-california-michigan-and-oregon
2011-10-28 Fantasy or Reality: Affordable and Open Access Textbooks (U of Ari...Nicole Allen
The second lecture hosted by the University of Arizona Libraries during its celebration of Open Access Week.
28 October 2011
University of Arizona Open Access Week
Tucson, AZ
What educational policy needs OER for, and what policy support does OER need?Dominic Orr
Presentation at: OER15 - 6th International Conference on Open Education – “'Mainstreaming Open Education”
Cardiff, 15 April 2015
Although Open Educational Resources (OER) have been one of the mainstays of discussion on open education over the past decade, we are now noticing a renewed attention of policy makers in the topic. Whilst many really cool initiatives are to be found around the world (for instance in Germany http://ow.ly/EdLOX ), OER can really only realize its potential in the mainstream, if it tackles mainstream problems. That means that it is important to re-start the discussion on OER so that there is a focus on OER as a means to an end, i.e. OER contributing to improving various aspects of education (see blog from TJ Bliss from the Hewlett Foundation: http://tjbliss.org/musings-on-oer-policy/ ). The Open University’s OER Research Hub, for instance, poses hypotheses about the benefits of OER (http://oerresearchhub.org/collaborative-research/hypotheses/). The most recent CERI/OECD report on OER (http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/open-educational-resources-oer.htm ), looks instead for typical problems in education systems first and searches for solutions which involve OER production and use. In a second step it looks to see whether the expected potential of OER is being realised. In this way, it can also formulate an assessment of the status quo and encourage a discussion on what policy interventions can do to help OER realise this potential. The report, which will be published late spring 2015, identifies six typical problems in education, which can benefit from OER production and use.
A presentation given at Educause ELI 2019 in Anaheim, CA on February 19. 2019. The PDF is available to download in our university IR: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/libraries_fac/28/
Textbooks and OER’s: Where we’ve been and where we’re going!MSCSA
This presentation will review legislative acton on textbooks, look at the introduction of Open Educational
Resources, and discuss what’s being done now on the issue.
OER Workshop for Coastline College Summer InstituteUna Daly
The Who, What, Why, Where, and How of Finding and Adopting High Quality Open Educational Resources
Join us for an interactive workshop on finding and adopting high-quality open educational resources (OER). The cost of a college education continues to rise dramatically and the high price of textbooks has been identified by students as a major barrier to achieving their academic goals.
Hear from faculty in California and other states who have adopted OER to reduce costs for students and enhance teaching and learning. You’ll get a chance to test drive searching for open textbooks in popular OER repositories and gain an understanding of what makes an effective open educational resource. Finally, we’ll brainstorm how to encourage other stakeholders at your college to support successful OER adoptions.
Bring a laptop or tablet and be prepared for some fun teamwork!
Presenter: Una Daly, director Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.
A panel of Community College leaders from around the country shared their OER Projects at Lansing Community College's OER Summit Day, Sept 18, 015. Panel was moderated by Una Daly, Director of Community College Consortium for OER.
Speakers:
Jeff Janowick, Lansing Community College
Kari Richards, Lansing Community College
Tina Ulrich, Northwestern Michigan Community College
Preston Davis, Northern Virginia Community College
Quill West, Pierce Community College, WA
Lisa Young, Scottsdale Community College, AZ
The results of an Open Textbook Initiative, includes definitions, why open is important, the process of beginning an open textbook initiative at a small university and the results after one academic year.
Strategies to Support Open Educational Resources for Student Success: Case Ex...Robin M. Ashford, MSLIS
This was a shared Educause Connect Portland 2017 session with Cynthia Jimes from ISKME: https://events.educause.edu/educause-connect/2017/portland/agenda/strategies-to-support-open-educational-resources-for-student-success-case-examples-from-california-michigan-and-oregon
2011-10-28 Fantasy or Reality: Affordable and Open Access Textbooks (U of Ari...Nicole Allen
The second lecture hosted by the University of Arizona Libraries during its celebration of Open Access Week.
28 October 2011
University of Arizona Open Access Week
Tucson, AZ
What educational policy needs OER for, and what policy support does OER need?Dominic Orr
Presentation at: OER15 - 6th International Conference on Open Education – “'Mainstreaming Open Education”
Cardiff, 15 April 2015
Although Open Educational Resources (OER) have been one of the mainstays of discussion on open education over the past decade, we are now noticing a renewed attention of policy makers in the topic. Whilst many really cool initiatives are to be found around the world (for instance in Germany http://ow.ly/EdLOX ), OER can really only realize its potential in the mainstream, if it tackles mainstream problems. That means that it is important to re-start the discussion on OER so that there is a focus on OER as a means to an end, i.e. OER contributing to improving various aspects of education (see blog from TJ Bliss from the Hewlett Foundation: http://tjbliss.org/musings-on-oer-policy/ ). The Open University’s OER Research Hub, for instance, poses hypotheses about the benefits of OER (http://oerresearchhub.org/collaborative-research/hypotheses/). The most recent CERI/OECD report on OER (http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/open-educational-resources-oer.htm ), looks instead for typical problems in education systems first and searches for solutions which involve OER production and use. In a second step it looks to see whether the expected potential of OER is being realised. In this way, it can also formulate an assessment of the status quo and encourage a discussion on what policy interventions can do to help OER realise this potential. The report, which will be published late spring 2015, identifies six typical problems in education, which can benefit from OER production and use.
A presentation given at Educause ELI 2019 in Anaheim, CA on February 19. 2019. The PDF is available to download in our university IR: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/libraries_fac/28/
Train-the-Trainer: OR Community Colleges Open Textbook WorkshopSarah Cohen
With Dave Ernst, slide from the Open Textbook Network (open.umn.edu) all-day workshop with OR Community Colleges and Open Oregon. Our goal is to help identify and overcome barriers to open textbook adoption, build capacity for open textbooks at individual campuses and across the system, and prepare representatives to give workshops on their own.
1. Open Academics
Textbook Catalog
Nicole Allen
US Student PIRGs
David Ernst
University of Minnesota
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3. Open Textbooks Statement of Intent
As faculty members, we affirm that it is our prerogative and responsibility to
select course materials that are pedagogically most appropriate for our classes.
We also affirm that it is consistent with this principle to seek affordable and
accessible course materials for our classes whenever possible. This includes
"open textbooks," which are offered online to students at no cost. Therefore,
we the undersigned declare our intent to:
•Seek and consider open textbooks and other open educational resources when
choosing course materials.
•Give preference to a low or no cost educational resource such as an open
textbook over an expensive textbook if it best fits the needs of a class.
•Encourage institutions to develop support for the use of open textbooks and
other open educational resources.
Signed by more than 3,000 faculty from 800 colleges across all 50 states.
http://studentpirgs.org/open-textbooks/faculty-statement
27. International
“This is a boon not only to students in
the United States but also in other
countries. There is so much
potential world-wide that is not realized
because of the lack of access to quality
study material.”
- Peter G. Raeth, Ph.D.
University of Zimbabwe
33. Get Involved
Why adopt?
• Reduce costs/Improve access
• Flexibility
• [insert your reason here]
• Look good!
34. Get Involved
Why adopt?
• Reduce costs/Improve access
• Flexibility
• [insert your reason here]
• Look good!
How to gain adoptions?
35. Get Involved
Why adopt?
• Reduce costs/Improve access
• Flexibility
• [insert your reason here]
• Look good!
How to gain adoptions?
• Share the catalog: open.umn.edu
36. Get Involved
Why adopt?
• Reduce costs/Improve access
• Flexibility
• [insert your reason here]
• Look good!
How to gain adoptions?
• Share the catalog: open.umn.edu
• Incentivize faculty to review
textbooks
About me: IT Director, but education background.\n\nDegrees: Lucky enough to have found a way to earn these degrees, but not everyone can.\n
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Stories. Good and bad.\nGood - (1) Remember aha moment (2) Convenient package of content for faculty \nBad - (1) Roommate stole books (2) Backpack stolen (3) Buying\n
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State funding decrease.\n\nIn Minnesota, more like -20% nationally\n