This document provides an overview of open educational resources (OER) and their benefits for students, faculty, and institutions. It discusses how OER can help lower costs for students by providing free or low-cost course materials. For faculty, OER allows for more flexibility in customizing materials and sharing works. Institutions can benefit from increased access to education and student retention when costs are lower. The document provides suggestions for libraries and academic leaders to promote OER adoption through identifying existing users, aligning with strategic goals, collecting impact data, and establishing programs for reviewing and funding open resources.

1. SUPPORTING
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES & PRACTICES
A Primer for Academic Libraries
Special Advisor to the Provost on Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
@thatpsychprof
Adaptation of photo by _HealthyMond . on Unsplash

2. Adaptation of photo by Doug Linstedt on Unsplash

3. Emergency services key box by Dennis van Zuijlekom, CC-BY-SA 2.0

4. Higher education
replicates and reinforces
existing power structures
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

5. Image credit: Jessie Miller

6. (Source: ATO, Taxation Statistics 2015–16, published 27 April 2018.)
OUTSTANDING HELP DEBT
NOW EXCEEDS
A$54 BILLION

7. Untitled image by Aleksi Tappura, CC0

8. Turn Towards Open to Overcome the Control Valve by Alan Levine, CC0

11. STUDENTS
CAN’T LEARN
FROM BOOKS THEY
CAN’T AFFORD

12. 66.5% Do not purchase a req'd textbook
47.6% Take fewer courses
45.5% Do not register for a specific course
37.6% Earn a poor grade
26.1% Drop a course
19.8% Fail a course
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Florida Virtual Campus. (2016). 2016 student textbook and course materials survey. Tallahassee, FL: Author.

19. "I budget by buying non
perishables and cooking
really, really cheap food…
I'm living from paycheck to
paycheck.”
Abena Dove, RMIT student

20. 1

21. “Inclusive access” is like
leasing fire extinguishers
from a serial arsonist

22. "OER Logo Open Educational Resources" by Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

23. REUSE
REVISE
REMIX
RETAIN
REDISTRIBUTE
OPEN
FREE + FREEDOM
5Rs {

24. open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

27. I would not have bought the text book for
this course because it's an elective. I
would have possibly walked away with a
C, now I might actually get an A-
It is easily accessible and convenient.
Material is easy to understand and follow
I personally really like the convenience of having the
complete set of chapters on my computer and even
accessible from my phone if I need it. I like that I don't
have to lug around another text book
It's free and it's a great money saver

29. openedgroup.org/review

30. 11/15/18

31. kpu.ca/ZedCred

33. Sections
Instructors
Departments
Students
Student Savings
>350
>100
>30
>10,000
>$1,200,000
Impact of the Zed Cred: Jan-Dec 2018

36. Source: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/strategic-ambitions/blueprint-for-the-future

37. Source: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/strategic-ambitions/blueprint-for-the-future

38. How would you
summarize the
benefits of OER for…
STUDENTS
FACULTY
INSTITUTIONS

39. "The pencil metaphor" by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is licensed under CC BY 4.0

40. 12
SUPPORTING OER ADOPTION
1. Identify existing faculty adopters
2. Enhance discoverability of open textbooks
3. Identify high enrolment courses & match
with highly rated & adopted open textbooks
4. Establish open textbook review program
5. Establish OER grant program
6. Support & recognize early adopters
7. Align injunctive with descriptive norms

41. 12
SUPPORTING OER ADOPTION
8. Form a campus OE working group
9. Identify relevant language in strategic planning
documents
10.Collect data
11.Collaborate internally (Bookstore, Teaching &
Learning Centre, Registrar, Student Association,
Institutional Research)
12.Collaborating externally (OER Librarian’s
Network; Australian Open Educational Practice
Special Interest Group; SPARC OER leadership
program; Open Textbook Network)

42. bit.ly/open-education-action-plan

43. “Evidence of educational leadership is required for
tenure/promotion in the Educational Leadership stream…
It can include, but is not limited to…Contributions to the
practice and theory of teaching and learning literature,
including publications in peer-reviewed and professional
journals, conference publications, book chapters,
textbooks and open education repositories / resources.”
— Guide to Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Procedures
Source: Nicole Allen (CC-BY)

44. It’s not only about
access to knowledge.
It’s about access to
knowledge
creation.
Photo by Beatriz Pérez Moya on Unsplash

45. Screenshot of http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cpt10/open-pedagogy.html

46. Critical pedagogy asserts that students can
engage their own learning from a position of
agency . . .
[It] takes seriously the educational imperative
to encourage students to act on the
knowledge, values, and social relations they
acquire by being responsive to the deepest
and most important problems of our times.
Henry Giroux, On Critical Pedagogy
Photo by Aashish R Gautam on Unsplash

47. "France in 2000 year (XXI century). Future school." by Jean Marc Cote is in the Public Domain

48. …it turns them into ‘containers’ to be ‘filled’ by the teacher. The more
completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more
meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students
they are.
Education thus becomes the act of depositing, in which the students are
the depositories and the teacher is the depositor.
In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by
those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they
consider to know nothing.
Paulo Freire, 1970, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Photo by john foust on Unsplash

49. Photo by Curtis MacNewton on Unsplash

50. "Recycling Water Bottles" by Mr.TinDC is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

51. Image credit: “Students as Producers logo” by Vanderbilt University

55. https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/

60. PM4ID

63. OpenPedagogy.org

65. kpu.ca/library/OPUS

66. bit.ly/openbookproject

67. A. Wesolek, A. Langley, & J. Lashley (Eds.),
OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians.
Pacific Grove: Pacific University Press.
[Forthcoming]

68. "Open Textbook Summit 2015” by BCcampus_News is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

69. @thatpsychprof
slideshare.net/thatpsychprof