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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: AN OPEN ALTERNATIVE TO COSTLY TEXTBOOKS
San Diego Mesa College 12th Annual Language Conference
This presentation
• What are OER?
• Goals and value of the OER movement
• OER in California
• The situation for Italian
• The situation for Spanish
• How to get involved (Action Research)
What are OER?
• Open Educational Resources
(OER) are free and openly
licensed educational material
that can be used for teaching,
learning, research, and other
purposes.
Types of OER
• Open Courseware
– Power point slides, audio/video
lectures, syllabi
• Open Textbooks
– Digital/print-on-demand
• Classroom Activities, Lesson Plans, Quizzes
• Homework and Practice Exercises
• Authentic L2 Content (e.g., texts, video,
audio, images, realia)
Main goals of OER
• Developing royalty free textbooks
• Simplifying licensing of resources for authors and
educators
• Packaging and indexing educational materials so they
are easier to find and use
• Nurturing online communities for teachers and
authors
• Growing open education as a field and a movement
The Value of OER
• Textbook affordability
• Continuous improvement and revision of educational
resources
• Opportunity to develop material with more
contemporary teaching approaches and
methodologies
OER – A world view
OER in California
• Senate Bill 1052 (2012)
• California OER Council
• The California College Textbook Affordability Act (AB798)
• Merlot II – Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning
and Online Teaching (CSU)
• COOL4Ed – California Open Online Library for Education
• California Network for Higher Education
Success Stories
• Collaborative Statistics in Open Stax
• Washtenaw Community College
Support organizations
• Lumen Learning
• OpenStax College (Rice University)
How to get involved
• Merlot Peer Reviewers
Institutions Adopting Online Texbooks for Foreign Languages
• Portland State University
• Humboldt State University
• University of Kansas
82% Increase of textbook prices
2002-2012 6% increase per year
(3x inflation rate)
$1,207 Average student budget for books
and supplies for 2012-2013 source: GAO Report 2013, College Board, Student PIRGs
Impact of OER on Student Learning Outcomes
Few researches performed on how OER's utilization influences student learning, nevertheless:
• Studies show that the use of OER does not lead to lower student outcomes. (Bowen et al., 2014)
• Students who used the open textbook achieved higher grades in the course, had a lower withdrawal rate (Feldstein et al., 2012), and scored better on the final examination. (Hilton and Laman, 2014)
• Students in courses using OER enrolled in a significantly higher number of credits in the next semester. (Fisher et al., 2015)
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First semester in Italian
“Gratis” vs. “Libre”
Photo source: free (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/2698947622/) / tonx (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/) / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
How to find OER
OER Commons Search results:
https://sllc.ku.edu/open-educational-resources#Span
Advanced Search Results:
How to choose an open textbook
• Find the right textbook
– Search repositories • Review and evaluate
– Meets content standards?
– Platform compatible? • Decide if you want to use it as is, or edit
– Check for licensing allowances • Distribute it to your students
– Online? Downloadable PDF? Print shop?
To consider . . .
• Teacher training
• Student training
• Parent training
All of the above need ready and
reliable access at the point of need
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215804e.pdf
STUDENT’S GUIDE
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1woWUiqvy9R9MXNhrB8IB2GuTmlVkIh-OlbznMeijVbQ/edit
How do we get involved?
OER through Action Research
Thank you!
Marina Laneri mschroeder@swccd.edu
Andrea Petri apetri@miracosta.edu
Silvia Santinato Kading skading@sdccd.edu
https://goo.gl/DIHrv7
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