The State of Open Education (#OpenCon2014)

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The State of
Open Education
Nicole Allen (@txtbks)
Director of Open Education, SPARC
OpenCon 2014 | November 15, 2014
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The Medieval Lecture

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The Modern Lecture

Open Educational
Resources
Teaching, learning and research resources
that reside in the public domain or are
released under an intellectual property
license that permits their free use and
repurposing by others.
~ Hewlett Foundation

Open Education
•  Open Educational Resources
•  Open Pedagogy
•  Open Assessments
•  Open Competencies
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CONTENT
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Source http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368
Figure 1: Estimated Increases in New College Textbook Prices, College Tuition and
Fees, and Overall Consumer Price Inflation, 2002 to 2012
textbook prices increased by a total of 82 percent over this time period,
while tuition and fees increased by 89 percent and overall consumer
prices grew by 28 percent.
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These price increases occurred from December 1986 to December 2004.
See GAO-05-806.

Captured from http://openstaxcollege.org/

https://ck12.org/

http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-
program/

http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
250+
Open Textbooks

Captured from http://ocw.mit.edu/about/

http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/

47,901
Open Courses

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics
500M+
CC Licensed Works

POLICY
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http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/

http://www.saskiaesken.de/aktuelle-artikel/digitale-bildung-
wird-im-haushalt-erhoeht

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology OER initiative seeks to promote open
learning through an open exploration that enables
faculty, students and the global academic
community to access OER to maximize the impact
and reach of their scholarly work through open
sharing.
Learn
more:
h+p://web.knust.edu.gh/oer/pages/

http://openpolicynetwork.org/exciting-updates-
on-open-government-and-open-education/

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry
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OER Policies

IMPACT
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otherwise noted...

http://openeducation2013.sched.org/event/
90d9e1c479a944181f771f720ef967db#.VGc_GlfF_JU

http://openeducation2013.sched.org/event/
90d9e1c479a944181f771f720ef967db#.VGc_GlfF_JU
~$100M+
Dollars Saved

http://edr.sagepub.com/content/early/
2014/09/15/0013189X14550275.abstract

http://oerresearchhub.org/

320
Pieces of evidence linking
OER & better outcomes
http://oerresearchhub.org/

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