This document discusses the benefits of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy. It notes that many students spend hundreds of dollars on textbooks each semester, which can impact college access and completion rates. OER can help lower costs by providing free or low-cost learning materials. The document advocates that open pedagogy empowers student-driven and collaborative learning, and facilitates public-facing work that connects academic and community issues. Overall, the document promotes OER and open pedagogy as ways to increase educational access and student success.

1. From A to T:
Access & Transformation
in Open Pedagogical Practice
@actualham

2. Book Costs Move Off the Charts
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3. • 56% of students pay
more than
$300 per semester &
20% of students pay
more than
$500 per semester
(FL Virtual Campus 2016)
• Students worry more about
paying for books
than they worry about
paying for college. (NEEBO)

5. WHY
Open
Educational
Resources?
It’s not only about
textbooks.
It’s about access to
Higher Education.

6. Wages, Financial Aid, and College Completion
• Americans with 4-year
degrees made 98% more an
hour than people without a
degree. (Leonhardt 2014)
• More than 31 million students
have failed to complete
college in last 20 years (NSCRC)
• Graduation rate at SNC: 72%
(USNews 2014)
• Average total indebtedness of
2015 graduating class at SNC:
$35,641 (USNews)
Aid at St. Norbert
Source: US News & World Report

7. The REAL
Cost of College
• Tuition
• Textbooks
• Transportation
• Child Care
• Food & Shelter
• Opportunity
Costs

8. In which domains does your teaching engage?

9. Survive & Know
OER
Laptop Checkout Programs
Tech Mentors
Extended Hours
Peer Mentors
Food Pantry
Veteran’s Mentor Program
Childcare Co-Op
Ride Board
Universal Design
Prior Learning
Transfer Agreements

11. CreativeCommons

12. OER
OpenStax Books

13. Student Success
“students who use
OER perform
significantly better on
the course throughput
rate than their peers
who use traditional
textbooks, in both
face-to-face and
online courses that
use OER.” (2016)
Throughput Rate
an aggregate of:
drop rates,
withdrawal rates,
C or better rates.

15. My Story

16. Collaboratively Built:
Alums, Incoming Students,
Professor

17. Constantly
Evolving:
Students & Teachers
Add, Improve, Share

18. MultimediaContributions

19. Interactive and Public

20. An Open
“Textbook”
Can Be:
• Interactive
• Collaborative
• Dialogic
• Dynamic
• Empowering
• Contributory
• Current
• Accessible
• Multimedia
• Public
• (Free)

21. What is Open Pedagogy?
Pedagogy enabled by the
open license.
ACCESSIBLE:
the open license can reduce barriers to education.
LEARNER-DRIVEN:
the open license can empower learners.
CONNECTED:
the open license facilitates connection and collaboration.
PUBLIC:
the open license can build support for higher education.

23. Domain of One’s Own
• Drag ’n Drop → Design
• Digital consumer → Digital
creator
• Data mining → Data control
• Audience of 1 → Public impact
• Web as broadcast station →
Web as open lab
• Work attached to course →
Work attached to student
• ePortfolio → ePort
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24. Twitter

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28. The open license
helps us lower
educational costs,
and can spur us to
think more broadly
about access.
The open license
is a vehicle for
students to
use their knowledge
and understanding to
impact the world.
The open license connects the
academic world with
the publics that support them,
and which they, in turn, support.

30. Q&A
tweet thoughts,
questions, ideas
@actualham