Keynote presentation at Evergreen Valley College/San Jose City College Professional Development Day - 8/25/2016

1. Open Educational
Resources
TJ Bliss, Ph.D.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
@tjbliss

3. Open Educational Resources can
help your students.

6. $2731 $1,133
Tuition and Fees Books &
Supplies
Cost of Community College
Source: College Board, Trends in Higher Education Report, 2011
https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/trends-2011-community-colleges-ed-enrollment-debt-brief.pdf

9. Source: Student PIRGs
$112

11. 66.6%
of students
DID NOT PURCHASE REQUIRED MATERIALS
because of textbook costs
Florida Virtual Campus - 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey

12. 47.6%
of students
TOOK FEWER COURSES
because of textbook costs
Florida Virtual Campus - 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey

13. 20.7%
of students
WITHDREW FROM A COURSE
because of textbook costs
Florida Virtual Campus - 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey

14. 2.6
The average number of textbooks
each student purchased
BUT WAS NOT ASSIGNED TO USE
Florida Virtual Campus - 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey

16. High textbook costs
Decrease student access
Increase student drop rates
Decrease student success and learning

17. Open Educational Resources
OER

18. Open Educational Resources
Any kind of teaching materials –
textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,
videos, readings, exams

19. Open Educational Resources
(1) Free and unfettered access, and
(2) Free copyright permissions to
engage in the 5R activities

20. • Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 5Rs

21. open > free

22. open = free + permissions

24. http://www.cool4ed.org/ and AB 798 (2015)
150 peer-reviewed open textbooks

25. $66M saved in 4 years

27. https://www.oerconsortium.org/

28. $2.2 Billion
EVERY YEAR.

34. OER DEGREE
Initiative

37. Open Educational Resources can
help you.

40. Open Educational Practice
Effective use of OER

41. Murder, Madness, and Mayhem

42. Wiki Education Foundation

43. Real Assignments
Real Impact

44. 6%
of all science-related Wikipedia
articles were
EDITED BY STUDENTS

45. 95%
of Wikipedians are male

46. 60%
of student Wikipedians are
FEMALE

48. “In the past I only had the official adopted textbook to
choose from. Now I have the whole world, using open
courseware from people who are worldwide experts in
the fields I teach. I’m finding incredibly creative and
innovative approaches to concepts that I wouldn’t
have come up with myself. That kind of freedom is
amazing.” – Linda Williams

50. Thank You
@tjbliss