Dispelling Myths about OER and Open Textbooks Jacky Hood, Coordinator, Open Doors Group 14 September 2011 at 12:50 Eastern Time Photo credits on the last.

Dispelling Myths about OER and Open Textbooks

Jacky Hood, Coordinator, Open Doors Group14 September 2011 at 12:50 Eastern Time

Photo credits on the last slide

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Myths are great…both urban and rural…

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Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox

Lost city of Atlantis

But let’s avoid Myth-Conceptions

Open Educational

Resources are low quality.

Open Educational

Resources are low quality.My students

prefer bound textbooks so I

cannot select an open textbook.

My students prefer bound textbooks so I

cannot select an open textbook.

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Poll: Use of OER…

Have you used Open Educational resources?

Yes, as an instructor Yes, as a student No

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Myth 1: Demand is High; Supply is Low

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Poll: Pricing Behavior

In a restaurant, do you avoid the least expensive item most expensive item both neither

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Myth 2: Commercial Use of OER should be Avoided

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Myth 3: An open textbook requires only the efforts and generosity of an author.

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BookstoresBookstoresWholesalersWholesalers

DistributorsDistributorsPrintersPrintersSales peopleSales people

MarketersMarketersBeta trial studentsBeta trial students

Peer ReviewersPeer ReviewersFact CheckersFact Checkers

Copy EditorsCopy Editors

PhotographersPhotographersIllustratorsIllustrators

EditorEditorAuthor(s)Author(s)

Project ManagerProject Manager

Poll: Student Media Preferences

Do the students you know prefer

Bound textbooks On-line textbooks Downloadable

textbooks Printable textbooks

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Myth 4: All Open textbooks are eBooks

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More Myths

Open textbooks will destroy college bookstores

Open textbooks are crowd-sourced by anonymous amateurs

Low cost is the only benefit of open textbooks.

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Contact Us

Open Doors Group http://opendoorsgroup.org Coordinator [email protected]

College Open Textbooks http://collegeopentextbooks.org Una Daly, Director, [email protected]

Join our community at http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com

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Photo Credits Race for the Lost City of Atlantis by Don Dixon

http://www.cosmographica.com/gallery/portfolio2007/content/bin/images/large/374_AtlantisAerial.jpg

Paul Bunyan from Brainerd http://www.brainerd.com/images/pbcover.jpg Question mark from puzzle pieces open licensed by Horia Varlan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273168957/ Supply/Demand/Need open licensed by A Look Askance (MelvinSchlubman)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alookaskance/253465353/ Le Restaurant at the Gare de Nord open licensed by Fotopedia

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-2567349994 Currency symbols on dice by Mad Group:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/m4dgroup/6001102681/ Publishing the Open Source Way CC BY SA by Open Source Way

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5041738449/sizes/z/in/photostream/ Spring Break Projects (Cat computer and books) open licensed By Seth Battis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/battis/2332470390/ Atlas from a 1917 public domain book; photo open licensed by perpetualplum Sue Clark

http://www.flickr.com/photos/perpetualplum/4526748750/

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