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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookOpen Educational Resources and Beyond

Campus Technology ForumApril 8, 2014

Kim ThanosLumen Learning Co-founder and CEO

Kaleidoscope Program Managerkim.thanos@lumenlearning.com

In every high-enrollment course that Lumen Learning touches our

goal is to:

Reduce textbook cost by

90%

Increase student success by 10%

through the use of open educational resources and

learning analytics.

Topics

WHY the realities of the content ecosystem

WHAT open educational resources

HOW proven sources for fifty courses

AND THEN the opportunity created

Reality One: Textbook costs are a barrier to student

success

Shared by Kim Thanos under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Community College Textbook Costs

Fall 2013

Intermediate Algebra at one community college

$590,186

Top 10 Courses at one community college

$4,669,152

Developmental Math in California Community Colleges

$15,817,500

There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

Measuring Cost and Quality

0%

20%

40%

60%

65%54%

Mercy College: Student Success

Students Earning a C or Bet-ter

$-

$40.00

$80.00

$120.00

$160.00

$5.00

$170.00

Mercy College: CostDollars per student per

course

Reality Two: Content is a Commodity

Who completed the Stanford prison experiment?

How did the results influence the field of psychology?

$100’s of millions of dollars invested by private foundations

Billions of dollars invested by the U.S. government

Personal investments by teachers and experts who care

Reality Three: Digital Favors Scale

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Blockbuster

Local Newspaper

Tower Records

Borders

Netflix

Huffington Post

iTunes

Amazon

Reality Four: In Ecosystems, Diversity = Sustainability

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Significant Market Correction

use copyright to enforce sharing

Makes It Easy to Share: 4Rs

• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse

• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the contentRevise

• Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something new

Remix

• Share copies of the original content, revisions or remixes with others

Redistribute

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Faculty Approaches

BUILD ADAPT ADOPT

• Develop new materials

• Aggregate materials from high-quality OER

• Create tools and systems

• Create media• Share or publish

Similar in scope to writing a new textbook with many collaborators.

• Identify high-quality course or resource

• Create significant revision

• Remix, aggregate• Share or publish

Similar in scope to moving from traditional to fully online delivery.

• Review open course• Refine for teaching

approach• Align with syllabus• Assign and reference

Similar in scope to using a new textbook or a major new edition.

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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookGo to the Stax, Max.

1. Statistics2. Physics3. Sociology4. Principles of econ5. Macroeconomics6. Microeconomics7. Biology for majors8. Biology for non-majors9. Anatomy and Physiology

Openstaxcollege.org

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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookTry MyOpenMath, Kath.

10.Arithmetic11.Beginning algebra12.Intermediate algebra13.College algebra14.Precalculus/trig15.Calculus I16.Calculus II17.Math for liberal arts18.Business calculus

Myopenmath.com

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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookCreate something new, Drew.

19.English composition I20.English composition II21.Developmental writing22.Development reading23.College success24.College literacy25.Intro to computing

Lumenlearning.com/courses

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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookCheck out Saylor, Taylor.

26.Music27.Art appreciation28.Philosophy29.Public speaking30.Logic and critical thinking31.American politics32.Comparative politics33.International relations34.World history35.American history II

Saylor.org

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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookFind OLI, Guy.

36.Psychology37.French I38.French II39.Statistics

Oli.cmu.edu

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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookCheck OCL, Mel.

40.Anthropology41.Microbiology42.General business43.Western civilization

Opencourselibrary.org

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Fifty Ways to Leave Your TextbookLook to a friend, Jenn.

44.U.S. history II (University of Georgia)45.Information literacy (Open SUNY)46.Native peoples in N.A. (Open SUNY)47.Natural resources biometrics (Open SUNY)48.Humanities (Open SUNY)49.Physical geography (Salt Lake CC)50.Earth science (Salt Lake CC)Plus, Minnesota Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu)And Lard Bucket (2012books.lardbucket.org)

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Just set yourself free.

Makes It Easy to Share: 4Rs

• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse

• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the contentRevise

• Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something new

Remix

• Share copies of the original content, revisions or remixes with others

Redistribute

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The True Opportunities

1. Cognitive science-based enhancements to learning materials (Jeffrey Karpicke retrieval over re-reading)

2. Contextualization created and shared by faculty or…

3. Student engagement in creation of learning materials (David Wiley open pedagogy)

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