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Summit on College Affordability: OER
This presentation discusses open educational resources (OER) and their benefits. OER are teaching and learning materials that can be freely used and modified. The presenter argues that adopting OER through entire degree programs (replacing all required textbooks with OER) can significantly improve affordability for students, increase student success rates, reinvigorate teaching methods, and achieve these benefits at scale across many students and institutions. The presentation cites research showing positive impacts of OER adoption on student outcomes like course completion rates and credits earned. It encourages moving beyond just swapping textbooks to fully leveraging the capabilities of OER, such as creating renewable assignments that students find valuable.
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- 1. Solutions that Work:Open Educational Resources Dr. Richard Sebastian Director, OER Degree Initiative Achieving the Dream rsebastian@achievingthedream.org
- 2. Unless otherwise noted, thispresentation is licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted from OER 101 presentation by David Wiley.
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- 12. GOOD IDEAS THAT ARE SUCCESSFUL “TheSweet Spot”
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- 14. Open Educational Resources (OER) “OERare teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”
- 15. open = free+ permissions
- 16. Open 1. Free andunfettered access 2. Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions
- 17. • Make andown a copyRetain • Use in a wide range of waysReuse • Adapt, modify, and improveRevise • Combine two or moreRemix • Share with othersRedistribute The 5Rs
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- 20. free is assumedonline
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- 23. The 5Rs • Makeand own a copyRetain • Use in a wide range of waysReuse • Adapt, modify, and improveRevise • Combine two or moreRemix • Share with othersRedistribute retain is a prerequisite to revise and remix
- 24. Open Educational Resources 1. Freeand unfettered access 2. Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions
- 25. openly licensed materials +internet
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- 27. OER Adoption Replacing whateverwas previously in the “Required Materials” section of your course syllabus with OER
- 28. High Impact OERAdoption 1. Improves affordability 2. Improves student success 3. Invigorates pedagogy 4. Does this all at scale
- 29. High Impact OERAdoption 1. Improves affordability 2. Improves student success 3. Invigorates pedagogy 4. Does this all at scale
- 31. Handwriting Printing PressInternet Copying a book $1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy Distributing a book $1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy Textbook Pricing in Context
- 32. Textbook Pricing inContext One Month Access to… Costs… Netflix – 20k Movies / TV Episodes $7.99 / month Spotify – 15M Songs $9.99 / month CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $19.67 / month
- 33. High Impact OERAdoption 1. Improves affordability, 2. Improves student success, 3. Invigorates pedagogy, and 4. Does this all at scale
- 34. There is adirect relationship between textbook costs and student success 60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost 35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost 31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost 23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost 14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost 2012 Florida Virtual Campus student survey
- 35. A Multi-Institutional Studyof the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on the Learning Outcomes of Post-secondary Students Fischer, Hilton, Robinson, and Wiley Journal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)
- 36. Participants • 4909 treatment •11,818 control • 50 different undergraduate courses • 130 teachers • 10 institutions
- 37. Method Quasi-experimental design with: •Propensity score matched groups • Dependent variables: Completion; C or Better; Credits Enrolled This Term; Credits Enrolled Next Term • Independent variable: Textbook condition • 3 covariates: age, gender, and race
- 38. Journal of Computingin Higher Education (2015)
- 39. Credits Taken Semester OERUsers Others Result Fall 13.29 11.14 t (8101) = 27.81 p < .01 Winter 10.71 9.16 F(1, 6440) = 154.08, p <.01 Journal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)
- 40. Improving Course Throughput Ratesand Open Educational Resources: Results from the Z-Degree Program at Tidewater Community College Hilton, Fischer, Wiley, and Williams Accepted International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
- 41. Course Throughput Rate IRRODL(in press) Drop Deadline Withdraw Deadline Final Grade Students
- 42. Commercial vs OER 2.3%| 1.8% 9.9% | 8.1% 68% | 74% (Face to Face) 60% | 66% Drop Withdraw C or Better CTR IRRODL (in press)
- 43. Commercial vs OER 4.0%| 1.4% 13.7% | 13.1% 66% | 70% (Online) 54% | 60% Drop Withdraw C or Better CTR IRRODL (in press)
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- 46. Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function Mani,Mullainathan, Shafir, and Zhao Science (2013)
- 47. Study Design Participants • Shoppersin a New Jersey mall • Sugarcane farmers in India Test cognitive capacity during financial stress • Thinking through car repairs ($150 / $1500) • Before and after harvest
- 48. Results • Considering afinancial decision affects people's performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning tasks. • Lower-income individuals performed poorly if the repairs were expensive but did fine if the cost was low. • Sugarcane farmers performed the same tasks better after harvest than before.
- 49. High Impact OERAdoption 1. Improves affordability, 2. Improves student success, 3. Invigorates pedagogy, and 4. Does this all at scale
- 50. 1. Don’t stopat the swap
- 53. Take advantage ofthe additional capabilities (5Rs)
- 54. 2. Use outcomesas outline
- 55. Outcome Assessment ResourcesLicense 1. Students will understand statistical test… 60 second explainer video URL 1 Video 1 CC BY CC BY 2. Students will analyze data… Govt data analysis URL 1 URL 2 CC BY CC BY SA 3. … … … … Create Alignment
- 56. 3. Rethink yourassessments
- 57. “What does openallow me to do?”
- 58. Disposable Assignments Students hatedoing them You hate grading them Huge wasted opportunity
- 59. US undergraduates spend approximately40 million hours doing homework every year.
- 60. Renewable Assignments Students seevalue in doing them You see value in grading them The work is valuable
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- 63. Renewable Assignments Are enabledby the open nature of OER
- 64. High Impact OERAdoption 1. Improves affordability, 2. Improves student success, 3. Invigorates pedagogy, and 4. Does this all at scale
- 65. OER-based Degrees When electiveand required courses adopt OER so a student can graduate without ever being asked to buy a textbook
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- 67. Achieving the Dream’s OERDegree Initiative Funded by The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Great Lakes Higher Education Commission, Speedwell, and Silent Hill
- 68. Achieving the Dream’s OERDegree Initiative Funding 38 community colleges to create OER degrees over 31 months Technical assistance: Lumen Learning Research evaluation: SRI Education & rpkGROUP Community of practice: Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER)
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- 70. Open Educational Resources 1. Freeand unfettered access 2. Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions
- 71. High Impact OERAdoption: 1. Improves affordability, 2. Improves student success, 3. Invigorates pedagogy, and 4. Does this all at scale
- 72. Thank you. Dr. RichardSebastian Director, OER Degree Initiative Achieving the Dream rsebastian@achievingthedream.or g