Textbook Affordability and OER: A National Strategy
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Open educational resources (OERs) refer to educational materials like textbooks, curricula, and multimedia that are available freely for anyone to copy, use, adapt, and re-share. OERs range from full courses to individual learning objects like videos, simulations, lectures, and assignments. They can be downloaded and edited to better serve all students by improving access and lowering costs compared to traditional textbooks. The document discusses the need for a national strategy to promote greater adoption of OERs in higher education in order to address issues of textbook affordability and accessibility.
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Textbook Affordability and OER: A National Strategy
- 1. Textbook Affordability and OER A National Strategy TJ Bliss, Ph.D. @tjbliss Some Rights Reserved (Except where noted) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- 17. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.
- 18. Open educational resources (OER) are freely available learning materials that can be downloaded, edited and shared to better serve all students.
- 20. Idiosyncratic
- 41. Individualized
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- These are the first 4 “I’s” of OER: ideology, individuals, institutions, infrastructure. Images in Public Domain - CC-0
- For much of its history, OER has been idiosyncratic. This has been a good thing. Image in Public Domain - CC-0
- Individual faculty, in far off corners, have brought OER to their classroom Image in Public Domain - CC-0
- Individual teachers, in far flung places, have translated OER into local languages for their students. Image in Public Domain - CC-0
- OER has been internally coherent, but not often systemically coherent. Image Credit: By Annielogue - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18755094
- In the recent past, we have seen OER move from idiosyncratic to institutionalized. Image Credit: JD Hancock – CC-BY - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/5262355673
- In some cases, folks are looking to adopt a full duck. (You just had to be there for this one). Images in Public Domain - CC-0
- The open textbook and OER degree work is an example of OER becoming more institutionalized. Image Credit: https://members.educause.edu/barbara-illowsky (Fair Use Claimed) Image Credit: http://news.rice.edu/2014/09/30/openstax-takes-personalized-learning-to-college/ (Fair Use Claimed) Blocks image in the Public Domain
- Image Source: https://web.tcc.edu/academics/about.html (Fair Use Claimed)
- Image Source: https://www.tcc.edu/tcc-news/linda-williams-z-degree (Fair Use Claimed)
- The open textbook and OER degree work is an example of OER becoming more institutionalized. OpenStax Books Image Credit: Jeff Fitlow – All Rights Reserved, Rice University - http://news.rice.edu/files/2016/02/0229_OSX-PRINT-b027a-lg-1d9krmz.jpg (Fair Use Claimed) Z-Degree Logo Image: Fair Use Claimed
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- Networks of institutions are forming around OER-related work. Images: Fair Use Claimed
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- Image Source: http://jlspartnerconnection.com/2016/04/04/hello-california-introducing-john-l-scott-siskiyou/ (Fair Use Claimed)
- Logos: Fair Use Claimed
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- But none of this matters unless the benefits of OER are leveraged for the individual. Image in Public Domain - CC-0
- Many organizations are using OER to improve teaching and learning at the individual level. Logos: Fair Use Claimed
- https://vimeo.com/188174692 Faculty like Amin Azzam are shining examples of how OER can be used in the classroom. Fair Use Claimed
- Screen Capture from http://wikiedu.org. Fair Use Claimed.