Open Education:Reducing Costs, Transforming Pedagogy
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Robin DeRosa@actualham
• Student textbooks cost about $1,200 per year.
• Students worry more about paying for books than they worry about paying for college.
• Textbook costs have risen 812% since 1978.
• $1,200 is equal to 12% of tuition at my university.
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Effects of Textbook Prices
• 60% of students report not purchasing a required textbook because of cost, and 23% regularly go without books due to cost
• 50% of students report taking fewer courses due to textbook costs
• 14% have dropped a course and 10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook costs
2012 Survey of 22,000 students,
Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the
12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.
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An Open “Textbook”Can Be:
• Interactive• Collaborative• Dialogic• Dynamic• Empowering• Contributory• Current• Accessible• Multimedia• Public• (Free)
Open Pedagogy
• Improves access to education.
• Treats education as a learner-driven process.
• Stresses community and collaboration over content.
• Connects the university to the widerpublic.
Access
• Save money on textbooks, ok
• But what otherbarriers exist to access?
• Digital divide
• Universal design
• Trolling, violence
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Public
Blogs, PLNs, ePorts
• @gardnercampbell
• @anrikard
• @audreywatters
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What is the Internet FOR, Anyway?
Pre-Med
Sport Performance
Art Therapy
Music Production
Sustainable Food Production
International Business
Weather Journalism
Data Analytics
Veterinary Medicine
Dance Entrepreneurship
Oh yeah….and English!
What Will the Digital Age
Enable?
Technology allows for efficient worldwide dissemination of research and scholarship. But closed distribution models can get in the way. Open access helps to fulfill the promise of the digital age.
~Jennifer Jenkins, Duke University Drawing: CC BY SA http://fav.me/d54zn82
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We Can Do It!
“We can be confident that OA journals are economically sustainable because the true costs of peer review, manuscript preparation, and OA dissemination are
considerably lower than the prices we currently pay for subscription-based journals. There's more than enough
money already committed to the journal-support system. Moreover, as OA spreads, libraries will realize large
savings from the conversion, cancellation, or demise of non-OA journals.”
~Peter Suber
My evening
• Barriers to open
• Contingent labor and OER
• Privilege and dominance in open spaces
• Screenshotting tweets
• Embedding tweets
• Exploiting tweeters
• Slideshares and articles
• Conferences
• Skype dates
• Plans for meetups
• Sharing faculty observation protocols
• Not
• Making
• Powerpoint
OPENing…• Challenge barriers to access. Be
honest and critical.• Center learners. Be radical and real.
• Facilitate connection. Be a sticky node, not a gate.
• Share research. Be generous and just.
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