Keene State College is implementing an open education initiative to increase affordability, student engagement, and public impact. The initiative focuses on open educational resources (OER) to lower textbook costs, open pedagogy to connect students to communities, and open access to research. OER has saved students over $149,000 at UNH. KSC aims to position itself as a leader through faculty champions, an academic technology director, and department-level OER initiatives. The open education approach advances KSC's public mission by increasing access, engaging learners beyond the classroom, and maximizing scholarly impact.

1. Open
Education
at
Keene State
College
Affordability,
Engagement,
Impact
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2. How Open Education Works for KSC
• Drives down the costs of higher
education: OER
• Engages our students with their fields
and communities: Open Pedagogy
• Increases public access to scholarly
research and demonstrates the value of
the university to taxpayers: Open Access

3. Drive Down Costs
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4. Book Costs Move Off the Charts

5. • 56% of students pay
more than $300 per
semester
• 20% pay more than $500
per semester (that’s
equal to 9% of tuition at
KSC!)
• Students worry more
about paying for books
than they worry about
paying for college.
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6. Effects of
Textbook Prices
• 67% did not purchase a
required textbook
• 38% earned a poor grade
• 20% failed a course
• 48% occasionally or
frequently take fewer
courses
• 26% dropped a course
• 21% withdrew from a
course
2016 Survey of 22,000 students,
Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the
12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.
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7. CreativeCommons

8. OER

9. Engage Students with their
Fields and Communities

10. Open Pedagogy:
building
networks for
ongoing learning

11. Public
Engagement
• Connected & Networked
(students link with
scholarly and professional
communities)
• Learner-Driven (students
design assignments)
• Contributory (students
publish work outside of
class parameters)
• Open to the Public
(knowledge is freely shared
when appropriate)
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12. How-To
OpenPed

13. Increase Public Access to Research
& Make a Case for
Taxpayer Support of KSC

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15. USNH Open Education Initiative:
Keene’s Team

16. National First Movers
• Maricopa Millions ($7.5 million in 4 yrs)
• Tidewater Community College Z-Degree
• UMASS-Amherst OER Initiative
• California State Legislature OER Library
• Oregon House Bill 2871
• Achieving the Dream

17. Achieving the Dream
The Open Educational Resources (OER) Degree
Initiative grantees, technical assistance,
community of practice, and research partners as
well as initiative funders convene to lay the
groundwork to boost college access and
completion, particularly for underserved
students, by engaging faculty in the redesign of
courses and degree programs through the
replacement of proprietary textbooks with open
educational resources.

18. OR Bill (Became Law July 2015)

19. UNH 2015 Pilot
• $30,000 investment;
• Saved up to $149,407 in textbook costs over
1,040 students with only 9 faculty involved;
• Exam scores in OER sections remained the
same or, in most cases, increased;
• Students and faculty overwhelmingly rated
the quality as high or higher than traditional
materials.

20. The USNH Open Education Initiative:
Scaling & Branding ATI
2015
• Focus ATI on Open Education
2016
• 45 faculty design Open Ed projects
• USNH ATSC presents initiative @ OpenEd16
2016-7
• Implementation of Open Ed projects & evaluation
2017
• January system-wide Open Ed event
• Spring USNH Open Ed Project Showcase
• Evaluation of Open Ed Initiative

21. Keene State College: Now Positioned as System Leader
Faculty Champion & Faculty Open Ped Learning Community
Informed & Dedicated Academic Technology Director
Department-Level OER Initiatives
Emerging Speakers’ Series with National Impact
Pilot of Domain of One’s Own
Emerging Student-Led OER Initiative
Support from ISP Director
Support from Library

22. Think about how KSC can:
• increase access to public
higher education (OER)
• engage learners with the
publics beyond the classroom
(Open Pedagogy)
• maximize our public impact
as a scholars (Open Access)
This is the case for
public education.