Global Open Educational Resources (OER) movement

Dr. Cable Green Director of Global Learning

[email protected]

twitter: @cgreen

Global Open Educational

Resources (OER) Movement

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Open Educational Resources

Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,

videos, readings, exams

Open Educational Resources

(1) Free and unfettered access, and

(2) Free copyright permissions to engage in the 5R activities

open ≈ free

free is assumed online

Handwriting Printing Press Internet

Copying a book

$1000s per copy

$1s per copy $0.0001s per copy

Distributing a book

$1000s per copy

$1s per copy $0.0001s per copy

open > free

open = free + permissions

• Make and own copies Retain

• Use in a wide range of ways Reuse

• Adapt, modify, and improve Revise

• Combine two or more Remix

• Share with others Redistribute

The 5Rs

retain is fundamental

retain is prerequisite

to revise and remix

watch out for new publisher “artificial scarcity” models

Cost to Students

Permissions to Faculty

and Students

Commercial Textbooks

Expensive Restrictive

Library Resources

Free Restrictive

Open Educational Resources

Free 5Rs

“Faux-pen” (aka “open washing”)

1. Free (possibly gated) access

2. All rights reserved (or stronger)

most freedom

least freedom Not OER

OER

Creative Commons puts the “open” in OER

What’s happening around the world?

A lot… and I can’t come close to

listing all of the excellent OER projects in 20 min.

Let’s talk about the trends…

Global OER Strategic Discussions

oerstrategy.org

join us: Friday, 16 Oct: 11:00

“OER: Mainstreaming and the Moonshot”

Primary & Secondary (K-12) OER

Leicester City Council / CC BY 4.0

http://k12oercollaborative.org

Open / OER Business Models

Lumen Learning

$ Cut total spend on textbooks by 90%

Measurable increase (5-10%) in student success

Open licensing of all new content

Data-driven course updates

Smooth faculty transition to open content

Student access to materials from day 1

Building an open source business by Libby Levi CC BY-SA

Open Pedagogy / Praxis / Practices

“what does open allow me to do?”

Disposable Assignments

Students hate doing them

Teachers hate grading them

Huge waste of time and energy

Renewable Assignments

Students see value in doing them

Teachers see value in grading them

The world is a better place at the end

Open Licensing Policy on Educational Resources

openpolicynetwork.org

Institute for Open Leadership

Apply @

openpolicynetwork.org/iol

$2 billion: new academic programs @

700+ Community Colleges Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) required

SkillsCommons.org

letter: oeru

sa.org

Focus on Open Textbooks in US

OER Potential in U.S. Higher Education: Save Students: Billions / year

If every:

Open textbook saves $128 per course / student

65% of students decided against buying a

required textbook because of cost

US PIRG Report, 2014 http://www.uspirg.org/reports/usp/fixing-broken-textbook-market

50% of students said that cost of

textbooks impacted how many and which classes they took

US PIRG Report, 2014 http://www.uspirg.org/reports/usp/fixing-broken-textbook-market

82% of students felt they would do

significantly better in a course if textbook was available for free

US PIRG Report, 2014 http://www.uspirg.org/reports/usp/fixing-broken-textbook-market

Research on OER

11 Peer Reviewed Studies: OER Outcomes vs. Traditional Textbooks

http://openedgroup.org/

48,623 Students

http://openedgroup.org/

93% Same or Better Outcomes

http://openedgroup.org/

9 Peer Reviewed Studies of Perceptions of OER Quality

http://openedgroup.org/

4,510 Professors and Students

http://openedgroup.org/

50% Same 35%

Better

15% Worse

http://openedgroup.org/

Dr. Cable Green Director of Global Learning

[email protected]

twitter: @cgreen

Global Open Educational

Resources (OER) Movement