Dr. Cable Green Director of Global Learning
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
twitter: @cgreen
Global Open Educational
Resources (OER) Movement
