This document summarizes the case for open educational resources (OER) as an alternative to traditional textbooks. It outlines how OER can reduce costs for students, promote sharing of knowledge, and give faculty more control over course materials. Several studies are cited showing comparable student success rates when using OER instead of commercial textbooks. The document encourages faculty to contribute to and adopt existing open textbooks and resources to increase access and lower costs for students.
Open: Decreasing Costs, Improving Access, and Increasing Quality of EducationDavid Wiley
While "open educational resources" initiatives like MIT OpenCourseWare generated media buzz during the 2000s, a new wave of initiatives is leveraging OER to dramatically decrease the cost, improve access, and increase the quality of secondary and higher education for the average student. This presentation demonstrates how "open" is shaping the field of education, and what is coming in the future.
This talk was delivered at the University of Georgia during March, 2013.
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Open Textbooks Workshop: The Open University Beck Pitt
This workshop was conducted by Beck Pitt at The Open University (UK) on Tuesday 9 January 2018 as part of the Hewlett funded UK Open Textbooks Project.
The workshop slide deck was originally developed by David Ernst of the Open Textbook Network, see: https://www.slideshare.net/djernst
For more on the UK Open Textbooks project: http://ukopentextbooks.org
Open Educational Resources: Increasing Student Learning and Academic FreedomDavid Wiley
This brief (30 minute) overview of open educational resources and their benefits was presented to the a meeting of college of business faculty at university in Utah.
Open Educational Resources: Implementation and Impact David Wiley
An introduction to open educational resources, including definition, examples, supporting research, and pedagogical implications. Presented at the ATD DREAM Conference, 23 Feb 2017, San Francisco, CA.
Surviving (and thriving) in the Age of Technology-Enhanced InstructionMaria H. Andersen
With every new iteration of technology, we create generations of students whose primary media "language" for learning and interacting with the world is different than the generation before it. In the last five years, technologies like online homework, personalized learning software, mobile devices, learning analytics, OER, and MOOCs have been chipping away at the corners of higher education and traditional teaching. Technology-enhanced learning is here to stay and it will alter formal education, like it or not. This is a guide to navigating and thriving in this new world and preparing yourself and students for what is to come.
This presentation on open educational resources (OER) by Michelle Reed was presented on August 24, 2020, during New Faculty Orientation at the University of Texas at Arlington. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Open: Decreasing Costs, Improving Access, and Increasing Quality of EducationDavid Wiley
While "open educational resources" initiatives like MIT OpenCourseWare generated media buzz during the 2000s, a new wave of initiatives is leveraging OER to dramatically decrease the cost, improve access, and increase the quality of secondary and higher education for the average student. This presentation demonstrates how "open" is shaping the field of education, and what is coming in the future.
This talk was delivered at the University of Georgia during March, 2013.
Student Attitudes Toward content in Higher Education: Nadine Vassallo, Projec...bisg
New insights based on over 1,600 student responses to the latest survey in BISG's ongoing study tracking the content and tools students say they actually use, points to the increasing role of technology in shaping the future of higher education
Open Textbooks Workshop: The Open University Beck Pitt
This workshop was conducted by Beck Pitt at The Open University (UK) on Tuesday 9 January 2018 as part of the Hewlett funded UK Open Textbooks Project.
The workshop slide deck was originally developed by David Ernst of the Open Textbook Network, see: https://www.slideshare.net/djernst
For more on the UK Open Textbooks project: http://ukopentextbooks.org
Open Educational Resources: Increasing Student Learning and Academic FreedomDavid Wiley
This brief (30 minute) overview of open educational resources and their benefits was presented to the a meeting of college of business faculty at university in Utah.
Open Educational Resources: Implementation and Impact David Wiley
An introduction to open educational resources, including definition, examples, supporting research, and pedagogical implications. Presented at the ATD DREAM Conference, 23 Feb 2017, San Francisco, CA.
Surviving (and thriving) in the Age of Technology-Enhanced InstructionMaria H. Andersen
With every new iteration of technology, we create generations of students whose primary media "language" for learning and interacting with the world is different than the generation before it. In the last five years, technologies like online homework, personalized learning software, mobile devices, learning analytics, OER, and MOOCs have been chipping away at the corners of higher education and traditional teaching. Technology-enhanced learning is here to stay and it will alter formal education, like it or not. This is a guide to navigating and thriving in this new world and preparing yourself and students for what is to come.
This presentation on open educational resources (OER) by Michelle Reed was presented on August 24, 2020, during New Faculty Orientation at the University of Texas at Arlington. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Lisa Young, Faculty Director, Teaching and Learning Center
Sian Proctor, Geology & Sustainability, Faculty
Paul Golisch, Dean & CIO, Adjunct Math Faculty
OER: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, Improving Efficacy (#UNTOA16)Nicole Allen
The cost of college textbooks has grown to a point that virtually every campus is now seeking solutions. While many colleges and universities have successfully reduced costs through stop-gap measures such as rental programs and textbook reserves, the greatest potential for permanently solving the problem lies in Open Educational Resources (OER), which are academic materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, adapt, and share. Institutions across the country have begun to leverage OER to reduce textbook costs, expand access to information, and enable faculty to better tailor materials to their courses. This talk will provide an overview of the OER movement to date, how it is playing out on campus, and research showing the impact on students. It will also help frame opportunities in the open, digital environment to improve teaching, learning and research for the advancement of society.
Intro to and overview of Open Educaiton with an empnasis on the Why, from philosophical to economic arguments. Practicing what we preach - this is a mash-up using openly licensed presentations from other open education advocates along with original ones (and lots of pics). All licenses (except screenshots) are attached to the relvant slides. Any questions, just contact us at feedback@oeconsortium.org.
Open Access Week 2014: Open Textbook Research Overview OER Hub
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The presentation focuses on research conducted Fall/Winter 2014 with OpenStax College.
Open Access Week 2014: Open Textbook Research Overview Beck Pitt
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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9. “this past spring quarter for math 60 I didn't
have a book the entire quarter and I barely
scraped by with a 2.0. I used the book and
help of tutors in the tutoring center everyday
and still did not fully understand the material
as much as I wanted. If I continue this way I
will surely fail math 98”
10. “I am afraid that if I can't/don't get this book
before the college quarter starts that I will fall
behind and possibly even fail the class”
11. The Direct 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
10% have withdrawn from a course
due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey
by Florida Virtual Campus
12. “70% of respondents had decided against
buying at least one assigned textbook due to
cost. While some of these students reported
sharing or borrowing instead, 78% still
believed they would generally do worse in
class without their own copy of the required
text.”
http://www.studentpirgs.org/news/ap/high-prices-prevent-college-students-buying-assigned-textbooks
17. OER: The 5R Permissions
Sharing and creativity are inherent in OER:
• Make and own copiesRetain
• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the
contentRevise
• Combine the original or revised content with
other OER to create something newRemix
• Share copies of the original content, revisions
or remixes with othersRedistribute
22. Example: Green River
27 sections of Math 141 each year
× 30 students per section
× $200 (Amazon retail of Stewart Precalc – cost of printed OER text)
$162,000 saved in one year, in one course
23. The text had a positive effect on the classroom instructional
atmosphere from the very beginning. Many students came
to class on the first day with a positive attitude borne of
having been to the bookstore and found that their textbook
would cost $20 rather than over $100, and even spending
that much was optional. Moreover, the vast majority of
students had the textbook in one form or another from the
outset and so didn’t face the prospect of falling behind
because they couldn’t get it until a financial aid check came
in.
MAA Review by Mike Kenyon, Green River Community
College, 10/15/2012
24. This is a simple way that
we as faculty can address
access inequity
37. At the Most Basic Level
No broken links
No surprise changes
No forced new editions
38. Open = freedom to
Add
Remove
Modify
Supplement
Ignore the book
39. I hate this problem
Q: Bob has $10,000 invested in two accounts,
one paying 4% interest and the other paying
6% interest. He earned $520 interest last year.
How much does he have invested in each
account?
A: Read your statements, Bob!
40. I don’t hate this problem
Q: Bob is retiring with $1 million. He can invest
in a safe CD earning 1%, or a riskier bond
account earning 4%. He wants to live on
interest, and needs $30,000 a year to live on.
What’s the minimum he needs to invest in the
bond account?
41. Customize and Localize
Searching through dozens of books for the
perfect table of contents
vs
Mixing contents from multiple texts to create a
perfect match for your outcomes
69. Results – Math in Society
Commercial text + Blackboard (‘06-’08 data)
70.2% pass rate, n = 131
IMathAS + Open Text v1 (‘08-’11 data)
72.4% pass rate, n = 236
IMathAS + Open Text v2 (’12-’13 data)
80.4% pass rate, n = 92
*No statistically significant difference
70. Success Data - Calculus
Stewart/Hoffman Comparison
Bellevue College used Stewart (2006-07) and Hoffman (2007-08)
Stewart N=622
Success = “ABC” = 74.4%
Success range: 42 – 90%
Hoffman N=710
Success = “ABC” = 74.8%
Success range: 40 – 95%
71. Student Success Data - Precalc
4850 students at Pierce, Green River, and
Shoreline have used our text (over the last 2
years), vs. 5000 past students saw no
significant difference in success, while saving
$300,000+
72. Student Success Data - Algebra
Big Bend switched completely to an emporium
model.
Success rate jumped from 48% to 75%, and
withdraw rate dropped from 25% to 9%
73. Mercy College - (Wallace Algebra)
Percentage passing with C or better
63.60%
68.90%
48.40%
60.18%
55.91%
64.50%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
80.00%
Fall 2011
No OER
Fall 2012
OER
Spring 2011
No OER
Spring 2013
OER
Total
No OER
Total
OER
n=2,842 including pilot
74.
75. “The student feedback I've received (to the texts I and others
have used, as well as the associated WAMAP material and
James Sousa videos) has been virtually 100% positive. And it's
not just the low-to-nonexistent price: we've received many
comments about how these books are much easier for them to
read than traditional textbooks, how WAMAP is far superior to
Webassign, and how helpful they find the videos.”
- Jeff Eldridge, Edmonds CC
80. Z Degree: Tidewater Community
College's textbook answer
The college estimates that students who complete
their degree through the textbook-free program
could save one-third on the cost of college.
96. Want to work on a contextual /
conceptual / active learning algebra
course?
Email me!
Contribute rich tasks to:
wamap.org/projects/
David Lippman
dlippman@pierce.ctc.edu
http://dlippman.imathas.com
97. Attribution Statement
This slidedeck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License and contains
content from a variety of sources published under a variety of open licenses,
including:
• Original content created by David Lippman of Pierce College and Lumen Learning
• Content created by David Wiley, originally published at
http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/ under a CC-BY license.
• Food machine photo, original published at http://www.flickr.com/photos/cvander/
under a CC-BY license
• Freaky skull photo, original published at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikcharlton/2955613283/sizes/m/in/photostream/
under a CC-BY license