This document discusses open educational resources (OER). It defines OER as teaching, learning, and research materials that are free of cost, barriers to access, and carry open licenses allowing free use, adaptation, and sharing. OER can be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed under a Creative Commons license. Barriers to OER adoption include not enough subject resources, difficulty finding materials, and lack of comprehensive catalogs. OER can help lower student costs of textbooks and materials, improve retention and completion rates, and allow for ownership of course content and new collaborative opportunities. Librarians can play a key role in increasing OER awareness, education, adoption, and support services.

1. What We Talk About
When We Talk About
OER
Michelle Reed, @LibrariansReed
Copyright Conference | UTA Libraries | 10.28.16

2. Open Educational Resources
“which are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free
of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission
for open use. Generally, this permission is granted by use of an
open license (for example, Creative Commons licenses) which
allows anyone to freely use, adapt and share the resource—
anytime, anywhere.”
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
(SPARC)
Source:http://sparcopen.org/open-education/

3. Open Educational Resources: 5 Rs
1. Retain
2. Reuse
3. Revise
4. Remix
5. Redistribute

4. Open vs. Free

5. OER
Digital
Free
Educational
Remixable

6. Examples
Source:http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/sites/coerll.utexas.edu.coerll/files/Finding-
OER-Infographic.pdf

10. Source:http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthetextbook2016.pdf
Why not
OERs?

11. Barriers to Adoption
49%
Not enough resources for my subject
48%
Too hard to find what I need
45%
No comprehensive catalog of resources
Source:http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthetextbook2016.pdf
FreeImages.com/bayek

12. The average student budgets
$1,249 - $1,364
on textbooks and course
materials in 2015-16.
Source:http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-
estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2015-16

13. http://www.studentpirgs.org/sites/student/files/reports/The%20Billion%20Dollar%20S
olution.pdf

15. More open access publishing
A change in how we allocate spending
Increased engagement
Improved retention
Improved completion rates
Improved pedagogy
Ownership of course content
New partnerships and collaborative opportunities
Source:SarahCohen,OpenTextbookNetwork

16. OpenEducationatUTA Outreach | Advocacy
Awareness | Education | Support Services
Adopt | Adapt | Create
OER & Affordable Course Content
Increased Affordability
Increased Readiness | Decreased Debt
Improvement in Retention & Completion

17. http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/coursecontent
Librarians
Especially for

18. OE Rock Stars on Twitter:
David “The Godfather” Wiley @opencontent
Nicole Allen @txtbks
Rajiv Jhangiani @thatpsychprof
Sarah Cohen @thesheck
For a more comprehensive introduction, check out
“Open Education 101: OpenCon Webcast” at
https://youtu.be/5Dauh_PeAzI
@LibrariansReed
(& that’s me)

19. Some Favorite Things
A Film:
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
A Book:
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
A Website:
http://copyrightuser.org/

20. Thank You
http://www.slideshare.net/oelib